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I don't really believe in the Friday-the-13th-is-bad-luck
thing. Unfortunately, I hear it's bad luck whether you believe in it or not.
~Bob.
Advice
for my Granddaughter: For When I'm Gone
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royalties go to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
A well written, fascinating and at times sickening account
of the 1980s-1990s portion of the genocide in Darfur and long civil war in the
Sudan, not only between the largely-Arab Muslim north and the black Christian
and Animist south, but among the various factions, including a violent tribal-based
struggle within the southern rebels. Though South Sudan
became independent a year ago, the multi-sided fighting rages today. Americans
only take note when the starvation gets bad enough to warrant TV coverage--if
American Idol isn't on--but there is no reason to suspect the suffering and
death has lessened. Scroggins, a journalist who reported on Africa
first hand, builds her story around Emma McCune, a wild-child British aid
worker who married the Sudanese warlord of one of the southern factions and
became such a partisan in the internecine tribal feud that it was called
"Emma's War" by the locals. Who should read this book? Anyone who
thinks that slavery was an American phenomena that ended in 1965. (The Muslims
contemptuously referred to all the southern blacks by the local word for
"slave.") Anyone who thinks there is real hunger and poverty in America . Anyone
who thinks that in the Sudan--or any conflict like this in the Third World, there
are any good guys with clean hands--including the US, the UN and the NGO aid
organizations. Anyone who thinks that Shari'a law is a benign cultural and
religious expression. Anyone in a position to try to make policy for Africa , by the government or by a charitable
organization. Anyone who wants a broader understanding of this and similar
conflicts. ~Bob
Worth reading: The Jacksons
Excerpt: there was one thing that sent a strong tingle of
fear up the leg of white liberals — whether politicians or members of the media
— it was the worry that the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. could call them out, bounce
the race card against their forehead and make it stick, for all to see, right
between the eyes. It's the kind of thing that could ruin a career.
Excerpt: Democratic Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is
undergoing “intensive” medical treatment for a mood disorder, his office said
Wednesday evening. (Deranged Racist disorder is my guess. ~Bob.)
Homicide numbers
reveal stark contrast: African-Americans hardest hit by spike in violence,
deaths in Chicago
Excerpt: While blacks make up
about 33 percent of the city's population, they accounted for nearly 78 percent
of the homicide victims through the first six months of 2012. (But, since most
of the killers are black, there are no votes, money or power to be gained, so
no "Justice for...." marches by the race baiters. And the decent
black folks murdered by black thugs are quickly forgotten. ~Bob.)
FBI interviews: No
evidence Zimmerman a racist
Must not have listened to the edited MSNBC tape. ~Bob.
Excerpt: Federal civil-rights investigators interviewed dozens of George
Zimmerman's friends, neighbors and co-workers, and no one said he was a racist,
records released Thursday show.
US sends drone
submarines to destroy Iranian mines
Excerpt: The objective is to hunt down and destroy mines
that Iran may place to
enforce its threat of blockading the Strait of Hormuz .
German government
backtracks on the Energy Transition
Excerpt: …in almost every speech at
this high-level event the importance of fossil fuels for Germany 's
energy supply was underlined. And not just by industry representatives, but
also by the two responsible ministers from Merkel's cabinet, Economics Minister
Philipp Rössler and the Minister for the Environment Peter Altmaier. The new
Environment Minister even said he was "against discrimination of fossil
fuels". (Important. From Greener-than-thou Germany , breaks in the EU green
energy plans. The excerpt is from the editor’s teaser emailed with the link to
the article. Can we follow them in this? Ron P.)
Calls to Destroy Egypt
With the Islamic Brotherhood barely into power, we are
already seeing the extremists coming out of the woodwork to demand all the good
stuff that goes with fundamentalist Islam, the morality police, suppression of
all non-Muslims (or any Muslims that don't fit their particular bill), etc, and
now a real topper, the demand to destroy all "pagan" symbols. Which
means the smashing/leveling of the pyramids, the oldest of all major works of
human hands. Wow.... I wonder how this will go over, since tourism is pretty
important to Egypt .
(I don't think they will get to destroy the pyramids, but who knows? And it
does demonstrate how they think.) These fanatics are savages, ready to destroy
anything and everything that doesn't fit into their narrowest of all world
views. --Del
OOPS! Democrats
Opposition Research Accidentally Exposed
Excerpt: Media Trackers, a state-based conservative
investigative watchdog, today released 12 opposition research notebooks that the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee has assembled on top Republican candidates they are seeking to beat in November.
The books have never been made public and were found thanks to an IT glitch on
the DCCC’s web server that allowed Google searches for opposition research
terms related to Republican candidates to pull the files up. “This could be the
single biggest political intelligence coup of the 2012 battle for Congress,”
said Brian Sikma, communications director for Media Trackers.
Spies and Killers
Excerpt: It’s one thing for foreign spies to penetrate our
country and our government, but it’s quite different when we seem to be
inviting them in and even paying their expenses. Three stories along these
lines caught my attention. The first says the FBI is investigating more than a
hundred military members and contractors with something or other to do with
“radical Islam.”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/12/america-coming-civil-war/
Excerpt: Abe Lincoln used those words in 1858 to describe a country that was careening toward civil war. Now we’re a house divided again and another civil war is coming, with the 2012 election as its
Adult Content: Sodomy
"For the Sake of Islam." By Raymond Ibrahim
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3158/islam-sodomy
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3158/islam-sodomy
Not only did the original "underwear bomber"
Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri hide explosives in his rectum to assassinate Saudi
Prince Muhammad bin Nayef—they met in 2009 after the
22-year-old holy warrior "feigned repentance for his jihadi views"—but al-Asiri
apparently had fellow jihadis repeatedly sodomize him to "widen" his
anus in order to accommodate the explosives— all in accordance with the fatwas
[religious edicts] of Islamic clerics. A 2010 Arabic news video
that is making the rounds on the Internet gives the details.
Excerpt: What are the chances that Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas would ever sign a peace agreement with Israel ? The
answer: zero. Abbas, who is in his late 70s, has been in power since 2005 even
though his term in office formally ended in January 2009.
Internet Joke
How do you tell a Romney supporter from an Obama supporter? Romney
supporters sign their checks on the front; Obama supporters sign theirs on the
back.
Excerpt: Department of Justice Inspector General Michael
Horowitz has launched an investigation into the apparent retaliation from inside
the DOJ and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives against
whistle-blowers who brought information about Operation Fast and Furious to
congressional investigators. In a July 5 letter, Horowitz told Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and House oversight
committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa that the investigation had begun. Horowitz
was responding to a June 29 letter from Issa and Grassley describing how whistle-blowers were allegedly subjected to
retaliation on the job. (But if he finds wrong-doing, Holder will retaliate
against him, and you can be sure the IG knows it. ~Bob.)
McKeon Irked About Shorter Pentagon Report. By Kate Brannen http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120711/DEFREG02/307110005/McKeon-Irked-About-Shorter-Pentagon-Report?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE
Excerpt: When he asked why, the Pentagon official briefing
him said a new DoD policy requires that all reports to Congress be limited to
15 pages. Angered by the new policy, McKeon immediately fired off a letter to
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and held a last-minute press briefing to express
his frustrations to reporters. “I consider the report to be wholly inadequate
and believe it minimizes the uncertainty and the challenges posed by China ’s
military build-up,” McKeon wrote to Panetta. (Guess Congress is not in the
“need to know” group. Oh—green—saving paper! --Barb.)
Excerpt: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW), a left-leaning government watchdog group partially funded by
billionaire George Soros, is accusing House oversight
committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa of illegal activity by releasing Operation Fast and
Furious wiretap application documents into the congressional record.
CREW executive director Melanie Sloan wrote to both Attorney General Eric
Holder’s Department of Justice and the Office of Congressional Ethics calling
for an investigation into how Issa released the document that proves that
senior Department of Justice officials both knew about and approved gunwalking
in Fast and Furious.
New Executive Order
Grants The Department Of Homeland Security Extended Power To Control And
Monitor The Internet
Excerpt: The President has the authority to enact these
types of orders without the need for any debate, so it is a way for the
currently sitting president to implement policy with almost no recourse
available to the Public. This new order is now law based on the President’s
right to issue these which is granted by the US Congress. Like it or not it
looks like the US Government no longer needs to worry about voting on the
establishment of surveillance and control measures for the Internet in the US .
Excerpt: This is too much. The Justice Department actually
called a witness in the Texas Voter ID trial today in Washington , D.C. Washington , D.C. , from Texas to testify at
trial!
Did the Swift Boat
ads really sink Kerry?
I can't believe it, it's 8 years later, and in the
Washington Post today a supposed conservative writer continues the slam against
the Swift Boat Vets. He refers to "scurrilous ads" in a
"notorious campaign" and dismisses the book "Unfit For
Command" because he doesn't like the author. The Left has successfully
created a large myth in which the Swifties were all nasty Far Right types, they
were telling lies or at least slanted exaggerations, they were bankrolled big
time by assorted fat cats, and it was a rotten, unfair, purely politically
motivated smear of Mr. Kerry. And the book about Kerry was pretty much the same
thing. The Swifties were good guys who came forward reluctantly and only
because Kerry had made his heroic service in the war the biggest lynchpin in
his campaign. None of them made a dime, they all took tons of flak for simply
telling the truth of what they saw and knew and thought. There was never a
lawsuit for libel against the book, and Kerry could sure as hell afford
lawyers. He couldn't sue because everything stated in the book as a fact was
easily proven, and he would have looked worse in court than he did just leaving
it alone. I admire the Swifties and wish I could shake all their hands, and
thank them for standing up for the truth when it was needed. --Del
Subtleties of leftist
media
The link below is to an opening scene from the new HBO
series "The Newsroom." In it Jeff Daniels finally blows up and says
we're no longer the best country in the world, in response to a college student
asking a set-up question. His outburst is impressive, and he quotes a whole
bunch of statistics about how badly off we are. Several of them are false or misleading.
(Example- other countries have longer average lifespan, but in the US we lose more
people to accidents, violence, and by serving in the military than other
nations, and we count the premature babies that die, while other nations do
not; this automatically drops the average lifespan. But if you live to be 50 in
the USA ,
your chances of making it to 80 are higher than in any other nation on earth,
which actually is a meaningful fact.) He says "we used to have a war on
poverty, not on poor people," which assumes we now have a war on poor
people. Really? With more people on food stamps than ever before, and free cell
phones for the poor, 47% of the population not paying any income tax, and
obesity as a health problem among our poorest people? What we call living at a
level of poverty would have at least half the world's population thinking they
had it made. There's more of the subtle slant in the guy's monologue, all very
skillfully put together by some quite smart wordsmiths. This is in a way a
great program, because by building in this leftist slant, it actually is
portraying a lot of how the real media work. How can we be surprised by the
number of ignorant and/or badly misinformed people we have now, when the media
(and academia) do such a good job of putting out propaganda. Goebbels would be
beaming in admiration. --Del
A Yale professor comments on the sad state of US education
Excerpt: On Dennis Prager’s radio program on Monday, his
guest for the third hour was David Gelernter, professor of computer science at
Yale and author, most recently, of America-Lite: How
Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats).
In the book, and in his interview with Mr. Prager, Mr. Gelernter laments the
fallen state of American higher education. He distilled his views powerfully in
response to a caller’s question: If the academics ran America , what
would happen? (See, not every single professor at Yale is a flaming
Leftist..... (but I'd rather not think about how many of them are). This prof's
summary is certainly stark enough, and while I'm sure it doesn't describe every
college graduate, it does for sure describe a noticeable fraction of them, and
however small that fraction is, it's way, way too big. --Del )
Excerpt: President Obama has been stumbling on the economy,
and this week he added more proof of his weakness on foreign
policy. He told a popular Miami TV station that Venezuela 's aggressive President
Hugo Chavez "has not had a serious national security impact on us."
Chavez certainly doesn't reciprocate Obama's gentle feelings—in 2009, Chávez
proclaimed the U.S.
to be the "greatest terrorist nation."
Diplomacy with a ‘Kick me’ sign. By Benny Avni
Excerpt: Kofi Annan, that veteran poster boy for kumbaya
one-world-ism, asked the UN Security Council yesterday to extend the mandate of
his ever-expanding Syria
mission. His ideas on solving the Mideast’s most deadly crisis are closer to Russia ’s and Iran ’s
than to ours, but Washington
will likely go along anyway. Why? On Syria , as on too many
foreign-policy fronts, the Obama administration too often resembles Kofi Annan:
It wants all the world’s kids to play nice together in the global sandbox.
Romney Camp: Let's Face It, Obama's a Shameless Liar
Excerpt: The Obama campaign's dishonest attack ads portraying Mitt Romney
as a "corporate raider" and a "pioneer" of shipping
American jobs overseas have been debunked by multiple independent fact
checkers. WaPo called the first such spot "misleading, unfair and
untrue," and FactCheck.org found "no evidence" to support Obama's
allegations. Undeterred by facts and unconstrained by truth, Chicago
'Fast And Furious' Shows GOP's Big Weakness. By Ann Coulter
Excerpt: Most Americans don't care about whether Attorney General Eric
Holder is hiding Fast and Furious documents because they don't understand the
story.
Until someone can tell us otherwise, there is only one explanation for why
President Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave
thousands of guns to Mexican drug dealers: It put guns in their hands to
strengthen liberals' argument for gun control.
The Obama Plan Is Working Just ‘Fine’
Excerpt: When President Barack Obama said everything is going “fine” with
the private sector, what he actually meant is that everything is going
according to his plan. Obama’s plan has always been to ruin the private sector.
Our economy is in free fall. The private sector cannot survive four more years
of Obama.
Raytheon Gets $636M For Missile Defense - But Where Are The Lasers?
Excerpt: A recent report by the influential Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments calculated America US can probably afford to buy more defensive
missiles than impoverished North Korea
can buy offensive missiles, but China
or even Iran Los Angeles USSR
What I Learned Fighting the NLRB: The Obama labor board
has been like no other in ignoring the language of the law. By William J.
Kilberg
Excerpt: In June 2011, the National Labor Relations Board
began a case against Boeing for opening a nonunion plant in South Carolina . Six months later, the
International Association of Machinists withdrew its charge that the company
was engaging in unfair labor practices, and the NLRB dismissed its complaint.
Not coincidentally, Boeing's resolve in fighting the board—and in opening the
South Carolina plant in the first place—had produced a collective-bargaining
agreement with the machinists' union without a strike for the first time in
over a decade.
Former Jordanian MP: "When the Jews sense
security...the Muslims will destroy these security and economic
enterprises...until not a single Jew can hope to remain on this sacred
land"
Excerpt: “We have heard brother Abu Abed [Ismail Haniya]
say: "We shall never recognize Israel ,
and we shall work toward the liberation of Palestine
in its entirety, from the [Jordan ]
River to the [Mediterranean] Sea....Therefore, this is the path. The Jihadist
operations and the martyrdom operations constitute the path to which Allah
guides us.”
Worth Reading
Excerpt: We are witnessing a seismic shift in global
affairs. The shake-up is a perfect storm of political, demographic and
technological change that will soon make the world as we have known it for the
last 30 years almost unrecognizable.
Excerpt: However, Obama’s $787-billion American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act funneled millions of federal dollars to companies that shipped
American jobs overseas. Take, for example, North Carolina-based LED
manufacturer Cree Inc., which reaped $39 million through a stimulus-funded tax
credit program in January 2010. In November 2009, the company built a
manufacturing plant in Huizhou City ,
China
Obama Spending $30m
On Struggling Schools - In Arab
Kingdom
Excerpt: The Obama administration’s solution to public
school budget cuts and classroom overcrowding? Infuse millions of extra federal
dollars into constructing modern facilities and renovating old ones, while
deploying additional computer equipment – and new furniture – in schools
nationwide.... Nationwide, that is, in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
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