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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Political Digest for July 31, 2012
The Old Jarhead Blog: Bringing you news and information the MSM is too busy covering American Idol, celebrity affairs and sensational missing person cases to cover. Please forward to friends who need to be informed.
Advice for my Granddaughter: For When I'm Gone
All royalties go to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
Gun Control Works
Picture worth seeing and remembering. ~Bob.
Elizabeth Warren Praising Communist China as a Model for America
See picture in link above. ~Bob. Excerpt: Massachusetts residents who tuned in to the Olympics opening ceremony saw a new 30-second campaign commercial from the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren, that said America
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Here’s the most underreported story of the summer. When the Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) it inadvertently liberated millions of people who were going to be forced into Medicaid. Now they will have the opportunity to have private health insurance instead. What difference does that make? It could be the difference between life and death. A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report this week says there are 3 million such people. The actual number could be several times that size. But first things first. … Now if you were a resident alien, the rules are different. Since they don’t generally qualify for Medicaid, immigrant families at your income level can get subsidized private insurance in the exchange. But alas, you’re a citizen. So this option isn’t open to you.
Swing states give Obama the edge
Excerpt: President Obama has an overall edge in the 12 decisive battleground states that is measurably greater than his advantage in national polling. The dynamic, which may reflect a combination of lower swing-state unemployment rates and demographic advantages for the president, is causing stirrings of unease among Republicans, even as they emphasize that it is important not to read too much into the state of the race right now.
Romney says Israel’s capital is Jerusalem, vows to move embassy
Excerpt: Mitt Romney on Sunday declared Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel and said he would seek to move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv as president if the Israeli government ascents. "A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel 's capital," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said in an interview on CNN, conducted in Jerusalem Jerusalem
Romney laughs off Newsweek magazine’s 'wimp' cover story
Excerpt: GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney brushed off a Newsweek cover labeling him a “wimp,” saying that the media tried the same tactic to discredit former President George H. W. Bush. “They tried that in George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty great President and anything but,” said Romney in an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation. (Trying to drum up subscriptions from Progressives. But this could have a huge impact among Newsweek’s five or six remaining readers. ~Bob.)
Opinion: Obama camp facing cash crisis. By Juan Williams
Real Headline: Media joins Obama fund-raising efforts. This has been a talking point on their “gummier” e-mails lately. ~Bob. Excerpt: Get ready for this year’s “October Surprise” — the news event in the weeks before the presidential election that has the potential to push the remaining undecided voters behind one candidate and decide the outcome. Here’s a sneak peek at the “surprise.” In late October, President Obama announces his campaign is tapped out of money and unable to answer the final round of attack ads from his opponent, Mitt Romney.
Election up for grabs with 100 days to go
Excerpt: With 100 days until the 2012 election, President Obama has a tenuous lead, but the struggling economy hurts his bid for a second term. Obama leads Mitt Romney by a narrow margin in most national polls, and has a slightly wider lead in most swing states, giving Romney little room for error. But while Obama continues to lead Romney in personal likability — a major asset — there are few signs that Obama’s sustained summer attack on Romney’s business background has changed the contours of the race. (I think 95% of the people have made up their minds, and the others are among the low-turnout folks. So depends on who votes. Or a factor that hasn’t happened yet with the economy or foreign policy. ~Bob.)
Report: Adviser says Romney would back Israeli attack on Iran
Excerpt: A top Mitt Romney foreign policy aide on Sunday said the GOP presidential candidate would back an Israeli military strike on Iran to prevent Tehran Israel has to take action on its own, in order to stop Iran from developing that capability, the governor would respect that decision,” said Romney adviser on Middle East affairs Dan Senor in a briefing with reporters, according to media reports.
Land-Use Regulation Increases Income Inequality
Excerpt: Harvard University economists have proven that land-use regulation is a major cause of growing income inequality in the United States Pacific Coast and in New England -- began such regulation in the 1970s and 1980s. Forty to 75 percent of the decline in inequality before 1980, the Harvard economists say, was due to migration of workers from low-income states to high-income states. The freedom to easily move faded after 1980 as land-use regulation in many of the highest-income states made housing unaffordable to low-income workers. 9It also increases the wealth of the 1% by putting parks and green areas near their up-scale homes. They get the value, but not the cost, and it eliminates low-income people living near the Obamas, Kerrys, or George Soros. ~Bob.)
Important: IRS Data Shows That Businesses Will Bear Brunt of Obama's Tax Hike. By Scott A. Hodge
Excerpt: Today, President Obama renewed his call for allowing the Bush-era tax rates to expire for families earning over $250,000 while extending the lower rates for taxpayers below that threshold. The president and his economic team tend to dismiss the impact that such as tax hike will have on business activity because only 2 or 3 percent of taxpayers with business income are taxed at the highest rates. While this statistic is true, the more economically meaningful statistic is how much overall business income will be taxed at the highest rates. For example, Treasury data for 2007 indicates that 50 percent of all pass-through income is earned by taxpayers subject to the top two tax brackets of 33 percent and 35 percent. (Alas, so many voters are economically ignorant and not paying attention, these facts will have no impact. ~Bob.)
Why States Have a Huge Fiscal Incentive to Opt Out of Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion. By Avik Roy
Excerpt: Eight state governors have stated that they will take advantage of the recent Supreme Court ruling, allowing them to opt out of Obamacare’s dramatic expansion of Medicaid. Their actions have been dismissed by liberal columnists as mere partisan posturing. After all, argue the liberals, the federal government is picking up most of the tab, so what’s the problem?
Green Jobs Gone Bust : Obama’s green investments drown in red ink. By Deroy Murdock
Excerpt: DOE’s website boasts that its “clean energy” initiatives — dubbed 1703, 1705, and Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) — loaned $34.7 billion and launched “nearly 60,000” jobs. This totals a staggering $578,333 per position. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, private employers pay workers, on average, $62,757 annually in wages and benefits. So, Obama is “creating jobs” at 922 percent of the private sector’s cost of employing workers for a year. For every green job that Obama supposedly spawns with taxpayer dollars and borrowed Chinese money, private enterprises could hire nine people.
New Farm Bill: Welfare in Disguise
Video.
A Healthcare Blueprint For A President Mitt Romney
Excerpt: First, Romney and company must create a functional consumer market for health insurance by changing the way that it’s taxed. Currently, individuals do not have the same ability to purchase insurance tax-free that businesses do. Not only is that unfair — it also drives up the cost of insurance and of care. Because folks don’t directly shoulder the costs of the care they consume, they demand more of it.
Key Pro-Israel Obama Ally Splits. By Eli Lake
Excerpt: Dennis Ross, who had worked with the Obama team since 2008, had the ear of the pro-Israel lobby. Now he’s bowing out of politics, Eli Lake
The East Asia Pivot. By Bill Gertz
Excerpt: A Pentagon-sponsored report to Congress outlines the U.S. military’s new pivot to Asia and calls for adding attack submarines and Marines based throughout the Pacific to head off a future war with China Japan and South Korea
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/13/america-s-new-bomb-threat.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Netanyahu: Obama's Sanctions Haven't Stopped Iran
Excerpt: Speaking with presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney at his side, Netanyahu said a "strong and credible military threat" was needed on top of the sanctions to get Iran
Mitt Romney Delivers Foreign Policy Speech From Israel
Excerpt: It is a deeply moving experience to be in Jerusalem , the capital of Israel Israel
Romney faces Palestinian criticism for Jerusalem remarks as he heads to Poland
Excerpt: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney angered Palestinian leaders on Monday when he suggested here that the Israeli economy had outpaced the economy of the Palestinian territories in part because of advantages of “culture.” Palestinians said that Romney had ignored the long-running Israeli restrictions on crossings from the Gaza Strip and West Bank , which they say are an enormous drag on trade. The Romney campaign disputed media accounts of Romney’s remarks. (Romney may have lost the important terrorist vote. ~Bob.)
Romney Goes to Israel
Excerpt: Why is the august professor suddenly acting like a political hack, a kind of low-rent Ivy League Deborah Wasserman-Schultz, flacking for the president at the exact moment the administration is unleashing various forms of “aid to Israel” in a patently obvious attempt to undermine Romney’s trip?
Tweet from Dan Collins @vermontaigne
Mayo Clinic preliminarily diagnoses Jesse Jackson, Jr with chronic graft, a heritable condition.
Actual Border Patrol representatives describe the real situation
Listening to these two guys explain what really goes on may make your head explode, but what they've revealed needs to be understood by every American. --Del
The Media’s Racial Prison. By Bruce Thornton
Excerpt: Two incidents last week suggest once more that our confused, hypocritical, and politicized notions of race and relations will play a huge role in the presidential election. In the first, Virginia state senator L. Louise Lucas, part of Obama’s “Truth Team” campaigning for the president in Virginia
Olympics Opening Ceremony: Liberty
Excerpt: The Olympics hadn’t even started yet when the disgraces began to pile up. First the International Olympic Committee, plainly loath to offend Muslim governments, ruled out a moment of silence at the opening ceremony for the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich South Korea ’s flag was mistakenly displayed instead of North Korea
New Book: Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 By George J Veith
Just saw this, have not read it. It looks good. ~Bob.
‘Summer Brides’: Under-age daughters sold as ‘sex-slaves’ in Egypt
Part of the “Arab Spring,” roundly cheered by Progressives, the Obama administration and the Liberal Media. ~Bob. Excerpt: Wealthy Arab tourists from Gulf countries are paying money to purchase under-age Egyptian girls as “summer-brides”, claims a new report on human trafficking released by the U.S. State Department. The marriages are not legally binding and end when the men return to their home countries.
Business Owners Battle
Excerpt: Two days from now, employers across America
Excerpt: A couple of days ago, I posted France24's account of the Muslim mob attack on police in Marseilles France
Foreign Office investigates reports of Britons among Islamist kidnappers of journalists in Syria
Excerpt: During their time in captivity they were threatened with death unless they converted to Islam, and both were shot and slightly wounded when they attempted to flee barefoot. … The group accused them of being spies, and considered holding them for ransom, said Mr Oerlemans. He added: "As soon as Assad has fallen, these fighters want to introduce Islamic law, Sharia, in Syria
Scalia: ‘Limitations’ could be imposed on guns in the future. By Jeff Poor
Excerpt: On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to react to the possibility that gun laws might change in the wake of the shooting tragedy in Aurora, Colorado earlier this month. “Obviously, the amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand-carried. It’s ‘to keep and bear,’ so it doesn’t apply to cannons. But I suppose there are hand-held rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes, that will have to be decided.” (Already they won’t let me buy a Ma Deuce, which would be very handy in Chicago. ~Bob.)
Rubio's plane makes emergency landing. Marco clowns: 'I know how to take a hint' http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/rubios-plane-makes-emergency-landing/?cat_orig=politics
Excerpt: Sen. Marco Rubio’s plane was forced to make an emergency landing in New Mexico on Saturday, preventing the Florida Republican from stumping for Mitt Romney in Iowa. But the Romney surrogate and contender for the Republican vice presidential nomination saw the humor in his aeronautical adventure in Albuquerque.
Obama's entrepreneurial Communist Manifesto: Chuck Norris examines founders' ideas on building success. By Chuck Norris
Excerpt: President Obama’s business comments a couple weeks ago in Roanoke, Va., in which he said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” sounded more communistic than capitalistic, especially since the “somebody” to whom Obama referred was, in fact, the U.S. federal government. …. The truth is, Obama’s statements in Roanoke were in no way reminiscent of great capitalists and innovators like Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. On the other hand, his words did smack of a few other societal manipulators
Powerful Wall Street Banks Hijacked TARP and Stole the Recovery
Excerpt: Neil Barofsky, a lifetime Democrat, was picked by then-President George W. Bush (on the advise of his Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson) to police how the banks spent the $700 billion in TARP economic stimulus funds that should have helped the United States avert the recession that all Americans now suffer under. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on April 20, 2010, Barofsky said: "To declare TARP a success is revisionist history. TARP was supposed to restore lending, and that didn't happen." (It started out as a socialist program to force banks to lend to the insolvent and just-barely solvent but degenerated into a time bomb that brought economic devastation to the entire world. Even in the hands of morally upright people, socialism can't work. But put it in the hands of the corrupt politicians now nesting in Washington and the disaster spreads at warp speed. --Don Hank)
Worth Reading: California: “The Road Warrior” Is Here. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: George Miller’s 1981 post-apocalyptic film “The Road Warrior” envisioned an impoverished world of the future. The movie was remarkably prophetic of today's seemingly post-apocalyptic California. (Another great piece from Dr. Hanson, though he should remind us again why he is optimistic about the nation’s future. In WWII Budapest, it is reported that the Nazis (doubtless to the approbation of their Islamic admirers) would line up Jews who were chained together on a bridge over the Danube. They would shoot the more fortunate one on the end, who would fall into the river, dragging the others to their drowning deaths one by one. The world economy has the prudent states chained to the feckless, and ultimately to other economies, eventually to Greece, Spain, Ireland, and the rest of the EU disaster states. In the US, prosperous states, like Texas and North Dakota, are chained to disaster states like California and Illinois. It’s hard to see how their collapse doesn’t drag the rest of us into the abyss with them. We are, I fear, close to fiscal collapse, followed by political and social collapsed. ~Bob. This 4-page article—a bit long, even for Hanson—shows Hanson at his best, reminding us how we got into this mess. When Bob and I were in electronics schools in San Diego in 1965, all of California’s roads were superb. In 2005, I visited for the first time, driving for about two hours on 99, the major north-south highway in the interior of the state. The condition of the road was appalling with many major potholes, broken pavement, and even missing exit signs. Roads in rural areas of “poor” states are usually in better shape than this. Although Hunger Games might be a strong second choice, I think Hanson has hit the perfect metaphor with Road Warrior. –Ron P.)
6-Year-Old Gives 10 Reasons NOT to Vote for Obama!
Video.
2012 Campaign Very Different Than Kerry vs. Bush. By Michael Barone
Excerpt: Does the 2012 campaign look a lot like the 2004 campaign? Many Democrats think so. … But, as William Galston of the Brookings Institution, an alumnus of the Clinton White House, writes in The New Republic, "the evidence in favor of all these propositions is remarkably thin."
Obama in '08: I Will Not Run Negative Campaign Ads
Ho, hum, another BO lie. Who cares? ~Bob.
It's Official: The Arms Trade Treaty Is Dead. By AWR Hawkins http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/28/It-s-Official-The-Arms-Trade-Treaty-is-Dead
Excerpt: The threat of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is over, for now. On July 27, the U.S. joined Russia, Indonesia, and India in saying they needed more time to think about the pact before going forward, thus negotiations ended. And although this won't keep the treaty from coming back up should Obama be re-elected, it does means that gun owners can breath a sigh of relief for the next six months.
Obama backs race-based school discipline policies. By Neil Munro
Excerpt: “What this means is that whites and Asians will get suspended for things that blacks don’t get suspended for,” because school officials will try to level punishments despite groups’ different infraction rates, predicted Hans Bader, a counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Bader is a former official in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, and has sued and represented school districts and colleges in civil-rights cases. “It is too bad that the president has chosen to set up a new bureaucracy with a focus on one particular racial group, to the exclusion of all others,” said Roger Clegg, the president of the Center for Equal Opportunity. (Yes, Neil, of Rose Garden Heckle fame—Barb. So, if a black thug murders a decent black citizen [we call that the Weekend in Chicago], we should send an innocent white guy to prison with him to balance punishments. The Constitution used to guarantee “equal protection of the law.” ~Bob.)
Mitt Romney and the wimp factor. By Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake
Excerpt: Newsweek seems to define Romney’s alleged “wimpiness” as a sort of wide-ranging insecurity that forces the Republican presidential candidate into a series of gaffes like the ones he committed in London late last week.
Blown DEA sting riles truck owner
Excerpt: Commandeered by one of his drivers, who was secretly working with federal agents, the truck had been hauling marijuana from the border as part of an undercover operation. And without Patty's knowledge, the Drug Enforcement Administration was paying his driver, Lawrence Chapa, to use the truck to bust traffickers. At least 17 hours before that early-morning phone call, Chapa was shot dead in front of more than a dozen law enforcement officers — all of them taken by surprise by hijackers trying to steal the red Kenworth T600 truck and its load of pot.
DHS Gears Up for Civil Unrest Prior to Presidential Elections
Excerpt: The Department of Homeland Security has ordered masses of riot gear equipment to prepare for potential significant domestic riots at the Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention and next year’s presidential inauguration. (Even paranoids have enemies… ~Bob.)
Jewish businessmen show support for Romney in Israel with big bucks
Excerpt: In private, President Barack Obama may be kicking himself for missing out on a campaign finance bonanza in Israel after learning that a group of U.S. Jewish businessmen are handing over $50,000.00 each during a fundraising breakfast Sunday with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, according to the Law Enforcement Examiner's Israeli police source. (Not to worry. Obama will now buy back Jewish votes with our tax dollars. It’s The Chicago way. ~Bob.)
The Week That Was: 2012-07-28 (July 28, 2012)
Excerpt: EPA has announced that it is delaying until next year the implementation of certain rules, both under the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. These rules largely, but not exclusively, pertain to coal-fired power plants. One can speculate that real reason for this delay is the upcoming election, which may be very close. In a number of states, voters are expressing outrage at the rules which will raise electricity rates and make coal-fired power plants prohibitively expensive. (The excerpt is from Ken Haapala’s summary. I urge reading the 1st and 3rd numbered articles (reprinted in full at the end of the file) and the second article under the heading “Challenging the Orthodoxy” about computer climate models. --Ron P.)
The Sad Truth About Bad Bulbs
Excerpt: Fluorescent bulbs don’t burn out all at once like incandescents do. Instead, they lose their apparent wattage output over time. In my experience, CFLs have a half-life of about 30 months in normal usage. In other words, a 1000-lumen CFL will produce only 500 lumens after two-and-a-half years. By the time the rotten thing finally does completely give up the ghost, you’ll be half-blind from squinting. (Note that these problems are in addition to the mercury/chemical hazard CFLs present. –Ron P.)
PA Hails IOC's Refusal to Honor 1972 Munich Victims
Excerpt: The Palestinian Authority (PA) thanked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for refusing to hold a moment of silence during today's opening ceremonies in London in honor of the Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich massacre, the Jerusalem Post reports. (I suggest organizing a worldwide “moment of remembrance” the media can’t ignore. ~Bob.)
Obama’s overly optimistic economic forecasts. By James Pethokoukis
Excerpt: Of course, the White House and its Keynesian economic models have continually forecasted mini-booms as being right around the corner. And those forecasts have yet to pan out. (You mean 2009 wasn’t a “Recovery Summer”? Who knew? ~Bob.)
Excerpt: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's husband received orders from the South Carolina National Guard on Monday and is expected to deploy to Afghanistan in January, a spokesman in her office said. 1st Lieutenant Michael Haley will deploy to Afghanistan, spokesman Rob Godfrey said.
Flash mob robs Chicago clothing store
Excerpt: A flash mob of nearly two dozen teenagers invaded a Chicago area store, the owner says, stealing thousands of dollars in clothing before walking out the door. (Here’s the video. Don’t mention the ethnic background of the teens, as that would be racist. The truth often is non-PC. ~Bob. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNHVOuKiPQ8)
Another ABC News Reporter Marries an Obama Staffer
Excerpt: President Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney is married to ABC News reporter Claire Shipman. Over the weekend a deputy press secretary married another ABC News reporter. How very cozy! (We already knew ABC News was in bed with the Obama campaign, but this is taking it to a whole new level. –Ken Gardner. Well, the good news is they couldn’t be any more biased. ~Bob.)
Monday, July 30, 2012
Political Digest for July 30, 2012
The Old Jarhead Blog: Bringing you news and information the
MSM is too busy covering American Idol, celebrity affairs and sensational
missing person cases to cover. Please forward to friends who need to be
informed.
I post articles because I think they are of interest. Doing
so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree (or disagree) with every—or
any—opinion in the posted article, or that I was able to verify the information
present, which is the responsibility of the author. In some cases I post things
sent to me by readers I might not have posted on my own, to get ideas
circulating.
Is California California
Excerpt: When Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature
overhauled the state’s welfare program last month, some people learned a
jarring fact for the first time: California
has one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients. That California has a lot of people on welfare
was not a secret. In addition to its size, the state has a long history of
heavy focus on social services, in part because of years of Democratic
dominance in Sacramento .
But the size of California ’s
welfare rolls is disproportionate when you consider the state has only 12
percent of the nation’s population.
Does billboard
comparing Obama to alleged shooter go too far?
Excerpt: A Caldwell
billboard is raising questions in the Treasure
Valley as it compares President Obama to accused Colorado killer, James Holmes. The billboard on Franklin Road equates the actions of the
president's foreign policies to the acts of Holmes, who's suspected of killing
12 people in the theater shooting.
Cojones Required to Defeat Racist Democrats and Media.
By Lloyd Marcus
Excerpt: When Obama entered the national arena, the bias of
the mainstream media intensified times ten. Obama was their dream come true. Not
only was Obama a left-wing hater of traditional America like them, but he was
black. Perfect! What white person would have the cojones to criticize
the first black presidential candidate?
Economy: Growth
sluggish, ranks of jobless remain high. By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics
Writer
Excerpt: High unemployment isn’t going away — not as long as
the economy grows as slowly as it did in the April-June quarter.
Excerpt: Michele Bachmann upset the press again. Strange.
The news media love handsome movie stars who daringly expose government
corruption; why does the press now circle the wagons to pretend that government
corruption cannot really exist?
The White House blunders again over the Churchill bust.
By Nile Gardiner
Excerpt: As Telegraph readers will recall, one of
the earliest actions of the Obama presidency when it came to office in 2009 was
to return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the British Embassy, an extraordinary
move considering the huge admiration for the wartime leader on both sides of the Atlantic . Tim
Shipman, The Sunday Telegraph’s Washington correspondent at the time (now
Deputy Political Editor at The Daily Mail), was the first to break
the story:
Doctor shortage
likely to worsen with health care law
Excerpt: The Association of American Medical Colleges
estimates that in 2015 the country will have 62,900 fewer doctors than needed.
And that number will more than double by 2025, as the expansion of insurance
coverage and the aging of baby boomers drive up demand for care. Even without the health care law, the shortfall of doctors
in 2025 would still exceed 100,000.
Clash with al Qaeda
linked group kills 11 in Philippines
Excerpt: Philippine forces clashed with Muslim extremists on
a southern island Thursday, leaving seven soldiers and four militants dead, the
military said.
Book bombshell:
Obama canceled Bin Laden ‘kill’ raid three times at Jarrett’s urging.
By David Martosko
Excerpt: At the urging of Valerie Jarrett, President Barack
Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three
separate occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL mission,
according to an explosive new book scheduled for release August 21.
Some funny anti-Obama
graphics posted
PETA: Marine Corps
Terminology, ‘Leatherneck’ Term Promotes Animal Abuse
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/07/peta-protests-marine-corps-terminology-mayhem-ensues/#ixzz21vOQPjVT
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/07/peta-protests-marine-corps-terminology-mayhem-ensues/#ixzz21vOQPjVT
Satire. ~Bob.
Tweet from @PolarCoug
It takes a village, a lot of weed, a little blow, and a
composite girlfriend to raise an idiot.
Muslim preacher who
tried to strangle his daughter, 16, for refusing an arranged marriage to her
cousin spared jail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180176/Abid-Hussain-Muslim-preacher-tried-strangle-daughter-16-refusing-arranged-marriage-cousin.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180176/Abid-Hussain-Muslim-preacher-tried-strangle-daughter-16-refusing-arranged-marriage-cousin.html
Excerpt: Abid Hussain, 56, grabbed the neck of Rabiyah Abid
and said: 'If you don't follow my rules I will kill you' after she rejected his
plans for her to wed. Hussain also left the teenager in fear of her life as he
battered her about the head at the family home above the mosque he runs at
Longsight, Manchester .
The Deadliest Global
City
Excerpt: Among what are considered Alpha world cities, Chicago has the highest murder rate -- higher even than
the Third World metropolises of Mexico
City and Sao Paolo.
Boycott impacting
Chick-fil-A
Tweet From @MaxMagnet1
People think Chick-fil-A should be banned from Boston & Chicago
because the owners hold the same views that Obama held six months ago.
Excerpt: While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out
at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in
prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme. (Hope they
didn't make him show an ID in court. ~Bob.)
Pelosi Galore: Jews
want tax cuts, don’t care about Obama Policies to Israel
Excerpt: Here is video of Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi in an
interview with Al Hunt saying Jewish Republicans are “being exploited” into
opposing President Obama because they actually want tax cuts – not because they
are concerned about Obama’s policy toward Israel. (Dem outs greedy Jews! ~Bob.)
Wow. I'm involved with the
Emergency Committee for Israel . We have an ad up
in several states calling attention to the fact that President Obama, who's
been quite the world traveler, has never visited Israel as president.
Woman burnt alive in
front of daughters
Excerpt: The failure to give birth to a son and the inability
to fulfill her husband and in-laws' demand for money cost a woman her life. She
was burnt alive allegedly
by her husband and in-laws in front of her minor daughters on
Friday night. ... The victim, Jahiran Biwi,
married Serajul Islam, a labourer, seven years back.
NBC Edits Out Tribute
To Victims Of Islamic Terrorism
Excerpt: If you are watching the
Olympics in the States, there's a part of the opening ceremony NBC chose to
leave out. While the Olympic Committee opted not to have a moment of silence for
the Israeli athletes murdered in 1972, they did have a tribute for the victims
of the 7/7 Islamic
terrorist attacks. The tribute included the Christian hymn,
"Abide With Me" performed by Scottish singer Emeli Sandé. NBC opted
not to air it.
(Islamic) Charity
official held for money laundering
Excerpt: Abu Dhabi
authorities arrested an employee at the Islamic and Endowments Authority (IEA)
on charges of involvement in money laundering, a crime revealed by his bank, a
newspaper reported on Sunday.
World holds its
breath as America
Excerpt: It is just hard to make any sort of plans for what
we're going to do," complains Pat Conroy, the founder and president of
MicroMain, a small software company based in Austin , Texas
Excerpt: California
ranked last or bottom tier in all of those categories. And California’s 9.3
percent income tax on middle class workers — those who earn more than $48,000 —
is higher than what millionaires pay in 47 states.
Excerpt: Six Uzbek fighters were among those reported killed
in the latest US drone
strike in Pakistan 's
Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The remotely piloted Predators or the more advanced Reapers fired at
least six missiles at a compound and a vehicle in the village of Khushhali
Turikhel near Mir Ali, according to reports from Pakistan . The
Uzbek fighters were "visiting a spring for leisure" when they were
attacked, a Pakistani intelligence official told The Express Tribune,
which put the number of Uzbeks killed at six. (And then it's Miller Time...
~Bob.)
Collapse Of Financial System Will Come In August, Maybe
September: Market-Watchers. By Eleazar David
Meléndez
Excerpt: Disappointed by the lack of aggressive action by
the U.S. Federal
Reserve at the meeting of its powerful rate-setting committee
last week, and assuming a wait-and-see posture on results from this week's
European summit, pessimistic market-watchers are turning once again to guessing
when the clock atop the euro zone time-bomb will finally run to 0. The
consensus? The world economy has entered a final countdown with
three months left, and investors should pencil in a collapse in either August
or September. (Not sure this is likely, but possible. And I keep remembering
that in August, 2008 McCain was ahead in the polls. Then came September...
~Bob.)
Excerpt: Leftists who hate Israel
can rejoice; their efforts at securing the release of a Gitmo
detainee and their subsequent lionizing of him allowed him to
murder five Israelis in the bombing Wednesday in Burgas , Bulgaria Gitmo Bay
National Debt? No
Such Thing
Excerpt: Imagine sitting at the kitchen table, stressing out
over your family's finances. Between the student loan debt, the credit card
debt, the car loan, the mortgage, the phone bill, the groceries, electricity
and the water, you only have so much in your bank account to cover a few of
those things. To avoid defaulting on your debt or having your car repossessed,
you'll either have to forgo electricity for your home, or you can simply
collect the debt owed to you by your rich neighbors, all of which totals more
than you would make in 10 years. Would you shut off your lights, or collect
what you're owed and settle all of your debt?
A rabbi talks about
2nd Amendment rights. By Rabbi Judah
Excerpt: In light of the evil perpetrated at a crowded Colorado movie theater, and now that the Wisconsin legislature has partially re-established the
right of the people to publicly bear arms, Jews in the state must reexamine
some of their beliefs. (In rabbinical studies students have to learn not just
about the Torah, etc, but also about things like reasoning to understand and
solve problems. This rabbi seems to have had those lessons really bear fruit.
--Del )
She Feels Your Pain –
Michelle Obama Sports $6,800 Jacket to London
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/while-americans-suffer-michelle-obama-sports-6800-jacket-at-london-party/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Excerpt: The liberal media was all upset that “elitist” Ann Romney wore a $990 top during a May interview on “This Morning.” Yet
this same media cheered the fashion and
style of Queen Michelle Obama whose taste in sweaters cost her
over$2,000 a pop. But, yesterday Michelle Obama outdid herself.
(Some of the 99% are doing better than others. I wouldn't pay $6,800 for body
armor if I was rich and headed to a gun fight. ~Bob.)
I’m in Shock — ACLU
Supports Chick-Fil-A!
Excerpt: When mayors of major cities came out and said that
they would deny a business license to Chick-Fil-A because of the beliefs of the
president of the company, I wondered if the ACLU would get involved.
Democratic Party
Operative Calls Out Obama Administration Over Security Leaks
Excerpt: The national security leaks that some within
the Democratic Party have indicated are coming directly from the
Obama White House is an issue that could incapacitate the Obama White House.
Longtime political operative Pat Caddell points to David Axelrod as being a
central figure regarding who knew what and when – while also bringing up the
subject of Watergate.
Shooting the
One-Percenters On Sight
Excerpt:. Matt Damon, the reigning king of speaking before
thinking, recently lamented the state of the U.S. political landscape. It seems
that Damon believes that financial inequality in America is a much bigger problem
than the media is letting on. And he knows this because he went to a Bruce
Springsteen concert in New York City .
Good for you, Matt. What can’t be learned from the liberal media can always be
learned from a liberal singer.
Romney's speech in Israel
Romney voices strong
support for Israel
God, I hope this can't be true. One can't know what to
believe anymore. ~Bob. Excerpt: The other day we learned that President Obama
is forming a new
African American education office. It appears that part of the
mission will be to impose race-based disciplinary policies on schools.
President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by
progressives to regulate schools’ disciplinary actions so that members of major
racial and ethnic groups are penalized at equal rates, regardless of
individuals’ behavior.
Quote
"If we want to keep our nation's secrets a 'SECRET'
then we should store them where President Obama stores his college
transcripts and birth certificate." --Gov. Mike Huckabee
Reward: $50,000 For
‘Khalidi Tape’ Of Obama At Anti-Israel Party
Excerpt: Breitbart News hereby announces a $50,000
reward to whomever can provide the complete video recording of the 2003
farewell party for radical Palestinian academic and activist Rashid Khalidi, at
which then-state senator Barack Obama spoke--and which the Los Angeles
Times has refused to release since reporting the event in April 2008. Then-reporter Peter
Wallsten (now with the Wall Street Journal) noted that the event was
one of many signs that had encouraged Palestinian-Americans to believe
"that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to
say."
Mayor Guiliani: Obama The Least Supportive President
Towards Israel
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/07/28/Mayor-Giuliani-Obama-The-Least-Supportive-President-Toward-Israel-We-ve-Ever-Had
by AWR Hawkins
Excerpt: In comments made this past week, former NYC Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani took President Obama to task for claiming to be a friend
of Israel . Said Giuliani, "I think that's the biggest joke I've ever
heard." ….When asked why he thought President Obama refused to visit
Israel during his first term, promising to do so only if given a second term,
Giuliani said the thinking behind that was fairly easy to understand, and that
it boiled down to the fact that "Obama feels much more empathy and
sympathy for [Israel's] enemies than he does for Israel."
All Those Bad Things
Mitt Romney Said About the Olympics in England
Excerpt: I’ll tell you what’s “disconcerting” David Cameron,
Boris Johnson, and all the Fleet Street twits who came down on Mitt Romney for
using that word to describe preparations for the Olympics. “Disconcerting” is
giving into blatant hate and bigotry. Times of Israel: The Lebanese judo team at the 2012 London
Olympics refused to practice next to the Israeli one on Friday afternoon, and a
makeshift barrier was erected to split their gym into two halves.
As Morsi Huddles with Hamas, Blind Sheikh’s Son Threatens Siege of U.S.
Embassy. By Andrew C. McCarthy
Excerpt: Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim
Brotherhood, met in Cairo today with Gaza’s “prime minister,” Ismail
Haniyeh of Hamas — the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch. As PJM’s David
Goldman observes, Morsi is getting ready to have the red carpet rolled
out for him by the Obama White House in September. …Morsi will also be ready to
press on President Obama his demand for the release of the blind sheikh, Omar
Abdel Rahman. Right after his election, he assured Egyptians that this was
among his top priorities.
Jobless claims rose again by 35,000 last week. Not good. But
it does show that if you’re unsuccessful in this country, you didn’t do it on
your own. You had help. Thank you, President Obama. –Jay Leno
The Bizarre Situation
With Huma And Terror
Excerpt: Senator McCain’s chivalrous defense of Huma Abedin,
intimate confidant of Hillary Clinton, is not only inappropriate, but it
borders on gross negligence and incompetence. We have come to expect the
release of classified information that puts our servicemen and ultimately the
Republic at risk from the present administration, but it is disconcerting to
hear Republicans defending possible terrorist moles with the bravado of
latter-day Chamberlains, promising peace in our lifetimes.
Excerpt: Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe told The
Daily Caller he believes President Barack Obama pressured the military into
granting an unprecedented exception to rules that prohibit participation in
political activities while in uniform. The Defense Department authorized a
waiver to allow uniformed service members to march in last weekend’s San Diego
gay pride parade, overriding a Defense Department directive‘s
specific rules against uniformed service members’ participation in political
events. “The Department of Defense isn’t allowing this to go on, it’s the
president,” Inhofe said in an interview with TheDC.
Think Diane Sawyer is getting the message? ~Bob.
Excerpt: In a strange twist of fate, religious institutions
now find themselves under attack from America ’s new theocracy: Obama,
Sebelius and their ilk — would-be theocrats who seek to impose their own moral
orthodoxy of collectivism, political correctness and statism. Now it is the
president, not the Church, who wants to circumvent the rule of law for the sake
of imposing his vision of morality and social justice. The administration’s
will to enforce its own moral dogma, rather than the Constitution, is the seed
of theocracy…. The separation of church and state is being threatened
— by the state.
Excerpt: When President Barack Obama blocked the Keystone
Pipeline, Republicans said the move would encourage Canada to pursue oil deals with China instead of the United States and
cede a massive chunk of North American oil assets to the communist
nation. Now, with China's state-run oil company CNOOC poised to cut a
$15.1 billion deal--the largest ever foreign acquisition for a Chinese
company--with Canadian oil company Nexen, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Rep.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are in full backpedal mode….."Do we really want to be
buying our oil or Canadian oil back from the Chinese?" said Sen. John
Hoeven (R-ND). "If we don't take action to develop our resources and work
with our closest friend and ally Canada , that's exactly what's going
to happen."
Excerpt: The Justice Department last week presented the
Newland family of Colorado --who
own Hercules Industries, a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning
business--with what amounted to an ultimatum: Give up your religion or your
business… “The government’s exclusionary attitude would push religion out of
every sphere of life except the four walls of a church,” they said in their
brief. “If for-profit corporations have no First Amendment ‘purpose,’
newspapers and other media would have no rights.”
Marine Corps general
to take over at SOUTHCOM
excerpt: The nomination of Lt. Gen. John Kelly to become the
next head of U.S. Southern Command — and pin on another star — was approved by
the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 25. SOUTHCOM oversees U.S. operations in the Caribbean, Central
America and South America from its headquarters in Miami . As a result of the confirmation, the U.S. military
will now have five Marine general officers wearing four stars.
ACORN Whistleblower
Excerpt: This young woman is in possession of something that
has become increasingly rare among our professional class, courage. (There are
growing concerns that the Democrat Party will use every opportunity to steal
the coming elections by fabricating voters from pet names, dead voter rolls,
and by registering illegal aliens. This courageous woman (I wonder how many
White House "lists" now have her name) gives those concerns
credibility. It appears that ACORN is a zombie that cannot be killed as long as
the Attorney General and the others in this disastrous administration are in
power. --Chet)
Obama’s ‘gaffes’ are
what he truly believes: Calls for context are meant to mask economic
misunderstanding
Excerpt: This month, he insulted entrepreneurs, saying, “If
you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Last
month, he astonished the unemployed, insisting, “The private sector is doing
fine.” The Obama campaign’s response is predictable. “Context!” is yelled every
time the president is caught off-message.
Blowing the whistle
on the federal Leviathan. By George F. Will
Excerpt: The huge humpback whale whose friendliness
precipitated a surreal seven-year — so far — federal hunt
for criminality surely did not feel put upon.
Nevertheless, our unhinged government, with an obsession like that of
Melville’s Ahab, has crippled Nancy Black’s
scientific career, cost her more than $100,000 in legal fees — so
far — and might sentence her to 20 years in prison. This Kafkaesque burlesque
of law enforcement began when someone whistled. (This kind of thing should
upset every American, regardless of any political position or lack thereof. It
demonstrates very well how the government can in fact abuse its power
arbitrarily and capriciously to drive almost any ordinary citizen right into
the ground. They can use taxpayer dollars for legal work that will bankrupt
whichever taxpayer they target. This is something that needs to bring on a lot
of forwarding of this article, and a lot of phone calls, letters, and e-mails
to congress people in protest. That leash on the feds needs to be made very,
very much shorter. --Del )
As Sacramento
Excerpt: California 's
death penalty has been in limbo since 2006, when a federal judge stayed the
execution of Michael Morales, who was sentenced to death for the brutal 1981
murder and rape of 17-year-old Terri Winchell. The judge was fearful lest the
state's three-drug lethal injection protocol would cause Morales undue pain.
Since then, a number of states have switched to a one-drug protocol. Why hasn't
California ? The
answer could be that Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris don't
want the death penalty to work. (Kamala Harris helped Obama get elected. She is
a copy of Eric Holder. --DH)
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