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Advice
for my Granddaughter: For When I'm Gone
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royalties go to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
Egyptian guards slaughtered
in attack on Israel
Excerpt: Gunmen killed at least 15 Egyptian border guards
before smashing through the country's border with Israel in stolen armoured vehicles,
Egyptian and Israeli officials said. The Israeli military said the gunmen
crossed into Israel
near the Kerem Shalom (Karm Abu Salem) crossing after killing the guards on the
Egyptian side of the border.
Mission Failure: Afghanistan
Excerpt: Imagine for a moment that almost once a week for
the last six months somebody somewhere in this country had burst, well-armed,
into a movie theater showing a superhero film and fired into the audience. ... Well,
the equivalent has happened in Afghanistan
(minus, of course, the superhero movies).
Gunman kills 6 at Wisconsin Sikh temple before being fatally shot by
police; motive unknown
Excerpt: An unidentified gunman killed six people at a Sikh
temple in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday in a rampage that left terrified
congregants hiding in closets and others texting friends outside for help. The
suspect was killed outside the temple in a shootout with police officers.
(Likely Sikh on Sikh violence, though Muslims don't like Sikhs much. Americans
often think Sikhs are Muslims because of the turban. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: In what is becoming an increasingly common event, a
gunfight erupted between two local Taliban groups in northern Balkh province, leaving three "key
insurgent commanders" dead and 10 other militants wounded, according to
local Afghan police officials who spoke with Pajhwok Afghan News. The clash erupted following a
disagreement between Taliban militants belonging to the Mullah Naqibullah Mahaz
(or Mullah Naqibullah Front) and those associated with the Mullah Toofan Mahaz
in the Gala Joy area of Chahar Bolak district on Saturday night. (I'm Bob Hall
and I approve this outcome.)
Excerpt: The Coalition confirmed that al Qaeda's leader for
Kunar province and his deputy were killed in Friday's airstrike in the Watahpur
district. Both al Qaeda leaders were Pakistani citizens, the International
Security Assistance Force told The Long War Journal. Additionally, an al
Qaeda facilitator who ran IED training camps was killed in a separate strike in
Watahpur on the same day. . (I'm Bob Hall and I approve this outcome too.)
Excerpt: The US
killed five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a drone airstrike in
eastern Yemen .
The strike is the first in Yemen
in more than a month.
The unmanned Predators or Reapers fired a pair of missiles
at a vehicle in Al Qotn in Hadramout province earlier today, AFP reported. Five AQAP fighters were killed in the strike.
(This one too. Good weekend. ~Bob.)
The State Mess Is
A-Coming
Excerpt: The WSJ’s OpEd page has once again highlighted the State
fiscal mess — and it’s time for we as citizens, with an election coming up, to
demand answers: The slow-motion collapse of the government status quo across
the Western world is obvious, but the reality is the opposite of what Twain
said about Wagner’s music—it’s worse than it sounds. That’s the message of a
recent report from Richard Ravitch and Paul Volcker that deserves far more
attention than it has received. (There is a separate chapter in The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
highlighting state and local fiscal problems. Nothing since publication has
gotten better. ~Bob.)
Countdown to
'Taxmageddon': What's Next?
Excerpt: Mark your calendars: Jan. 1, 2013, could be one of
the biggest tax disaster days in recent memory. Or not. That's the day when
current tax rates, compliments of the Bush tax cuts, are slated to expire.
That's also when the employee payroll tax rate, now 4.2 percent, is scheduled
to go back up to 6.2 percent. More estates will face higher taxes in 2013. And
don't forget about the 70-plus temporary tax breaks known as extenders that
haven't yet been renewed for 2012 or 2013.
Editorials (San Diego
Union)» Romney in a landslide
Excerpt: Most polls see the presidential race as a dead
heat. But several pundits, such as Dick Morris, say that Barack Obama should be
well ahead some 90 days out if the incumbent is to win. Morris points out that
historically, 75 percent of undecided voters ultimately fall to the challenger.
If that were to happen, Mitt Romney will become the next president of the United States
in a landslide. The U-T believes there will be a landslide win for Romney,
largely due to the failure of the Obama economic policies and repudiation of
his attempt to move the country toward European socialism. (I don't think these
chickens have been hatched. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Less than 100 days before the US presidential elections, the Obama
administration is openly denying Israel 's
sovereignty over Jerusalem .
Can this be a vote-getter? Last week, the Emergency Committee for Israel released an ad titled, "O, Jerusalem ." The
commercial showed administration officials squirming when asked to name the
capital of Israel , and
highlighted the recent refusals of White House and State Department
spokespeople to acknowledge that Jerusalem is Israel 's
capital city.
Fantastic example of
PC in the government
Excerpt Here we have a Congressman questioning a high federal
official about who and what it is who has attacked us, and who we are fighting.
The question asked is simple- is "violent Islamist extremism" our
enemy? Watch as the fed dodges the question left, right, sideways and upside down
to avoid answering it. He is NOT going to acknowledge "violent Islamist
extremism" (which is the simplest and most accurate way to describe Al
Queda, the Taliban, and other violent groups like those engaged in genocide in
Sudan, etc, ) no matter what! Al Queda is "murderers" (OK, but what
is their basic motivation?), and we are "not involved in war with
Islam" (not an answer to the question that was asked), etc, etc. Just
watch this for 3-4 minutes (or until your head is about to explode). This goes
on and on, and is just truly surreal. But that's what happens when PC thinking
and enslavement to the narrative of PC thought take hold. This guy is a highly
paid public servant, but he is not serving us at all in his mania to avoid
acknowledging the truth anyone with a brain sees in the events of the past
years. The phrase "violent Islamist extremism" carefully avoids the
great mass of Muslim, and even the fraction of the fundamentalists who are not
violent. All of the Muslim groups and individuals who have and are engaging in
serious violence against Westerners, Christians, other non-Muslims, and even
other Muslims do fit in that simple description. But for whatever crazy,
illogical, and arbitrary reasons, the PC position is that we cannot admit it. It'd
be like saying we weren't fighting Nazis in WW2, just some fraction of the
Germans who were murderers. --Del
Late Sen. Byrd’s FBI files reveal CIA leak uproar
Excerpt: Byrd,
who died in June 2010 at age 92, had sought the FBI intelligence while suspecting that communists and
subversives were guiding the civil rights cause, the records show. Decades
before he became history’s longest-serving member of Congress,
or gained the title “King of Pork” for sending federal funds to West Virginia , the
Democrat had stalled and voted against major civil rights legislation in the
mid-1960s. He also belonged to the Ku Klux Klan while
a young man in the 1940s, and the FBI cited that membership while weighing his requests for
classified information, the records show.
Romney: Obama lawsuit
targeting military voting law an ‘outrage’
excerpt: The Romney camp on Saturday moved quickly to cast
the Obama campaign’s voting rights lawsuit in Ohio as anti-military. The Obama campaign
and the Democratic National Committee this week filed a lawsuit to block a new Ohio law that expands
early voting rights for service members, allowing military members to vote up
until the Monday before the election — three days longer than is allowed for
the rest of the public. (You'd think if an illegal immigrant is allowed to vote
five or six times in an election because he doesn't have to show an ID, a
member of our military would be allowed to vote once. ~Bob.)
Frightening
Historical Quote from Author Tom Kratman, LtCol ,
USA
Still, the central thing about the whole Corcyraean civil
war is one line, "First of all words had to lose their ordinary meaning
and take on the meanings now assigned to them." If you think about the
modern attempts to manipulate the language for political ends - PC speak but
also other one off attempts - you will see that Thucydides is discussing
something monstrous that is monstrous in our present day lives too. --TK. (We
exchanged e-mails about the Peloponnesian War, or, rather, my ignorance
thereof. I will try to rectify that. ~Bob)
Shooter who aided
officer gives his account of Peach House RV Park incident
Excerpt: Vic Stacy, the resident of Peach House RV Park who
came to the aid of Early Police Sgt. Steven Means Sunday after two people were
killed by Charles Ronald Conner, insists he's not a hero — he just did what had
to be done.
Lack Of Tax
Transparency: Members of Congress quick to criticize secrecy but refuse to
release own returns. By Kevin G. Hall and David Lightman http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/19/hey-congress-where-are-your-tax-returns
Excerpt: Rep. Nancy Pelosi was emphatic. Mitt Romney’s
refusal to release more than two years of his personal tax returns, she said,
makes him unfit to win confirmation as a member of the president’s Cabinet, let
alone to hold the high office himself. Sen. Harry Reid went further: Romney’s
refusal to make public more of his tax records makes him unfit to be a
dogcatcher. They do not, however, think that standard of transparency should
apply to them. (A propos our discussion about Romney being provoked to
revealing his financial history in excruciating detail as
fodder for his political enemies, I thought you would appreciate this
review, a version of which appeared in the Tribune this week. As we agreed, no
one, not even Warren Buffett who has shilled for Obama's redistributionist
ideas, volunteers to pay more than he owes according to the tax rules in force
at the time of filing. If an aggressive (if not politicized) IRS has not come
after you as a tax cheat, you ought to be given a pass as an honest citizen.
If, on the other hand, political enemies in Congress want to criticize Romney
for taking advantage of loopholes they enacted, they should be held to the same
standards of openness. In fact, no once has accused Romney of a conflict of
interest, just for being rich and taking advantage of the tax code. As this
article reports, they are hypocrites not only because they enacted the
very loopholes they and their benefactors (collusionist
cronies) may benefit from, they have expressly excused themselves from
even a basic level of financial scrutiny lest they be exposed to conflict of
interest criticism. Aren't the Democrats all about fairness? Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Hunter, IEDs and
campaign contributions
Excerpt: Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, has been pushing
for the Army to take seriously requests from the field from service members who
want to use bomb-prediction software from Palo Alto-based Palantir
Technologies. So how much has the company given to Hunter? None, according to
records and Hunter’s office. In fact, many of Hunter’s top contributors are
members of a consortium that makes the software currently used by the Army.
DOJ suspiciously
dismissed human trafficking case, says watchdog group
Excerpt: The U.S. Justice Department once again failed to fulfill its
mandate to prosecute criminal activity to the fullest extent of the law, a
public-interest group dedicated to weeding out government corruption, fraud and
waste noted on Friday. While the story received scant mention in the national
news media, its shocking display of ineptitude by Attorney General Eric Holder and
his staff should give pause to any clear-thinking American citizen, said
political strategist and attorney Joseph Pankowsky.
Why the IOC will
never memorialize the '72 Munich
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/27/why-ioc-will-never-memorialize-72-munich-massacre/
Excerpt: Recently, new information about the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games was released by German police as a result of pressure from German investigative reporters. It was reported that the “Black September” terrorists were helped by a Nazi group inGermany
to get fake IDs, weapons and access to the Olympic Village.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/27/why-ioc-will-never-memorialize-72-munich-massacre/
Excerpt: Recently, new information about the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games was released by German police as a result of pressure from German investigative reporters. It was reported that the “Black September” terrorists were helped by a Nazi group in
Nostalgia
for the Front - Teilhard de Chardin
http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/teilharddechardin.html
Excerpt from Introduction: Dr. Annette Becker, in her book War and Faith, confirmed that Nostalgie shocked his later admirers; they failed to find here the scholar's mind open to challenging thought, (2) meaning that they found that their idol displayed feet of clay in his portrayal of his experience in war as something transcendent, even at times glorious, in a terrific sort of way. Disapproval resulted, despite the fact that, as Dr Becker also notes, 'an exalted vision of the war, with its beneficent aspects, even including death, was shared by many long-term [my italics] combatants!.'(3)
http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/teilharddechardin.html
Excerpt from Introduction: Dr. Annette Becker, in her book War and Faith, confirmed that Nostalgie shocked his later admirers; they failed to find here the scholar's mind open to challenging thought, (2) meaning that they found that their idol displayed feet of clay in his portrayal of his experience in war as something transcendent, even at times glorious, in a terrific sort of way. Disapproval resulted, despite the fact that, as Dr Becker also notes, 'an exalted vision of the war, with its beneficent aspects, even including death, was shared by many long-term [my italics] combatants!.'(3)
Costs, conflicts
arise in Reid push for green power
Excerpt: Say this about U.S. Sen. Harry Reid: He really
believes in renewable energy. ... Now Reid is pushing for a Chinese company he
played a key role in recruiting to Nevada ,
ENN Mojave Energy LLC. The company plans a billion-dollar solar energy
manufacturing and generating plant near Laughlin, but an ambitious development
schedule is being threatened by a lack of green power customers.
Iftikhar Ahmed, 52,
and wife Farzana, 49, of Warrington, Cheshire, suffocated the 17-year-old with
a plastic bag
Excerpt: For nearly a decade, Mr Ahmed and second wife
Farzana kept up the sham that they were grieving parents whose beautiful
daughter had been kidnapped.
In reality they were killers who murdered 17-year-old
Shafilea because she wanted to embrace Western culture - as her father had done
in younger years – and then terrorised the rest of their family into a
sickening nine-year cover-up.
Excerpt: The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has announced
that its emir, Abu Usman Adil, has died, and named Uthman Ghazi as the new
leader of the al Qaeda-linked terror group. (You can't say there's no chance
for advancement in these groups. ~Bob.)
Biden Warns Trial
Lawyers: 'Imagine the Supreme Court After Four Years of Romney'
Excerpt: Vice President Joe Biden, speaking to a group of
trial lawyers this afternoon in Chicago ,
delivered a stern warning. "Imagine the Supreme Court after four years of
Romney," said Biden, according to the pool report. "This is not scare
tactics, just what he said. If you’re frightened it’s because you should be.
(Yes, imagine a Romney Presidency being bad for trial lawyers, you know, the
guys who become super rich running class action suits that we all pay for or
the specious malpractice suits that make doctors run tons of unnecessary tests
to cover their butts? There's a group of people for whom all us regular
citizens have nothing but great affection, right? Trust Joe to get something
right that actually is bad for his side! --Del. Trial lawyers are among the
biggest Dem contributors. ~Bob.)
Soros
Election-Rigging Scheme Collapses
Excerpt: A George Soros-backed scheme that paved the way for
Al Franken’s 2008 theft of a U.S. Senate seat has collapsed months ahead of the
critical November elections.
Rumors of the death of the Secretary of State Project had
been circulating for months. Michael Kieschnick, co-founder of the Secretary of
State Project, confirmed that his group has shut down in an interview at the
recent “Take Back the American Dream” conference in Washington, D.C. (T his is
really important, it hobbles the Leftists from manipulating elections as they
succeeded in doing in the past. --Del)
Excerpt: How rare are these rare earth elements? It
turns out, the 15 elements called lanthanides are not so rare after all, some
more abundant than copper, lead, gold, and platinum. They are just difficult to
extract and release radioactive byproducts during mining that must be
carefully disposed of and stored. The rare earth oxides and metals are used
in catalysts, glass, polishing, metal alloys, magnets, phosphors, ceramics,
medicine, batteries, engines, and defense
Excerpt: One the nations he held up as an example for America 's green technology effort was Spain . However,
President Obama may like Spain 's
green technology program, but the Spanish -- not so much. One study has
declared it a colossal failure.
9 billion in Obama
economic stimulus to create 910 jobs . . . $9.89 million per job? The Obama
administration has closed 75 percent of previously available oil shale
resources.
Excerpt: This is in sharp contrast to the Obama
Administration’s canceling lease sales for oil shale deposits in Colorado , Wyoming and Utah early in the
President’s term and significantly downsizing development plans for those
resources since then. The United
States has the largest shale oil deposits in
the world, totaling 2.6 trillion barrels, but access to our natural resources
is being deliberately restricted by the administration policy.
Crime way up after
stop-&-frisk drop
Excerpt: Major crimes spiked by more than 12 percent after
the number of stop-and-frisks conducted by the NYPD dropped dramatically
earlier this year, The Post has learned. Figures show there were 24,751 major
crimes committed between Jan. 1 and March 31, a period when cops stopped
203,500 individuals and recovered 881 guns, according to sources.
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