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Worth Reading : Behind the White House’s secret Syria plan, By Chet Nagle, Former CIA Agent
Excerpt: The White House won’t keep its own secrets, never mind those of the SEALs, Pentagon, or Israel Syria Egypt Syria
Romney’s VP list seems to get shorter as GOP convention speakers are announced
Excerpt: Mitt Romney appears to have narrowed his short list of potential running mates, as national Republicans announced Monday that at least four people once thought to be under consideration for the No. 2 spot will speak at this month’s Republican National Convention — all but ruling them out of contention for the vice presidential slot. The Republican National Committee announced that former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Sen. Rand Paul, former Florida governor Jeb Bush and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez are among those expected to address the Aug. 27-30 convention in Tampa.
Social Security not deal it once was for workers. By Stephen Ohlemacher
Excerpt: People retiring today are part of the first generation of workers who have paid more in Social Security taxes during their careers than they will receive in benefits after they retire. It's a historic shift that will only get worse for future retirees, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Previous generations got a much better bargain, mainly because payroll taxes were very low when Social Security was enacted in the 1930s and remained so for decades.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: With the average price of gas in America
Worth Reading
Excerpt: It has long seemed to me that there is far more rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in politics and in commentaries on politics. What has puzzled me is why this is so, when what happens in politics has far more serious effects on people's lives. To take one common example, there are many people who believe that if the market fails, the government should step in. But, if Robinson Cano strikes out, does anyone suggest that the Yankees should send in a pinch hitter for him on his next time at bat?
Excerpt: The Mercatus Center at George Mason University
The Middle Eastern Time Bomb
Excerpt: Four years of President Obama's foreign policy are having their full effect. After squandering time in sham "negotiations" with Iran and Palestine and abandoning Iraq to al-Qaeda, the President has made many situations more difficult—and urgent. Iran Iran
Dems’ dire seat-uation. By Josh Margolin
Excerpt: Top aides on President Obama’s re-election team are terrified that there will be scores of empty seats when he makes his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, party insiders said. Obama, once the biggest draw in politics, won’t likely attract crowds as large as those at the 2008 convention because voters have gone sour on the poor economy, insiders said. (Racists are probably requiring IDs to get in, thus suppressing minority turnout because, according to Dems, minorities are too dumb to get IDs. My suggestion is to offer free cell phones and upgraded food stamp cards—place will be mobbed. ~Bob.)
Dems worried they can’t fill Bank of America
Excerpt: It wouldn’t be too surprising if the Dems ended up moving Obama’s speech to Time Warner Arena where the first three nights of the convention will be held. As an excuse all they’d have to do is pretend they just found out the larger stadium is named after the greedy Bank of America and was built with non-union labor.
Excerpt: Egypt branded Islamist gunmen who killed 16 police near the Israeli border as "infidels" and promised on Monday to launch a crackdown following the massacre that has strained Cairo 's ties with both Israel Egypt Israel
Excerpt: Greek police say more than 1,600 illegal immigrants will be deported following a major crackdown in Athens
Oxfam says hundreds being killed, raped, homes torched in security vacuum in east Congo
Excerpt: With Congo’s army diverted to fighting a new rebel group in eastern Congo, new militia groups have arisen and older ones are reasserting themselves, killing hundreds of defenseless civilians, the British charity Oxfam said Tuesday. (Or, as they call it in that part of the world, now blissfully free of white colonialism, “Tuesday.” ~Bob.)
Gunmen Kill 16 in Central Nigeria Church
Didn’t get the “Islam is a religion of peace” memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: Gunmen killed 16 people when they fired on worshippers at a church in Nigeria
Excerpt: Hundreds of people in northern Mali
Social Security Disability Insurance’s incentive not to work. By Charles Lane
Excerpt: Social Security Disability Insurance, however, pays people who can show that they are too mentally or physically impaired to remain in the labor force. In short, for many workers, SSDI creates a quasi-right not to work. This paradox is getting expensive. SSDI spending has doubled as a percentage of gross domestic product in the last 25 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Harry Reid not releasing his own tax returns
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79419.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79419.html
Excerpt: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid again deflected questions Monday about releasing his tax returns, even as he continued to pound the demand for Mitt Romney to make more of his own public. Instead, Reid pointed to the financial disclosure forms he files as a member of Congress, which provide different information.
Excerpt: The nuclear question is at the center of most countries' Iran China , France , Germany , Russia , the United Kingdom , and the United States have all engaged in negotiations to convince Tehran
After the Fall. By Clifford D. May
Excerpt: Call me a squish but I can’t be blasé about mass murder. The genocide carried out by the Communists in Cambodia in the 1970s, and the slaughters of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda
It’s Far From Safe to Say That al-Qaeda is Dead. By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Excerpt: A growing chorus of Western analysts is arguing that al-Qaeda is dead, and that it is time to end the “global war on terror.” As the ubiquitous CNN terrorism analyst and bestselling author Peter Bergen put it: “We can declare victory against the group and move on” to such challenges as “a rising China, managing the rogue regime in North Korea, continuing to delay Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons, and — to the extent feasible — helping to direct the maturation of the Arab Spring.”
Taliban Opens Office in Zahedan , Iran
Excerpt: The Wall Street Journal reports that the Iranian government is expanding its ties to the Taliban and even allowing Mullah Omar’s organization to set up an office in eastern Iran Zahedan in late May, according to a senior Western diplomat in Kabul
56% Think Loan Guarantees for Solyndra Were A Bad Idea
Excerpt: Most voters don’t think the federal government should have invested in the failed alternative energy firm Solyndra which ended up costing taxpayers more than a half-billion dollars. But most also think it’s business as usual for government officials to help companies they like. Just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it was a good idea for the government to provide loan guarantees for Solyndra, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. (The other 44% are, at best, not paying attention. At worst, corrupt Democrats or idiots. ~Bob.)
Allen West Sends Chick-Fil-A To Black Caucus Meeting And Offends Everyone. By Jennifer Bendery
Excerpt: A Democratic lawmaker says Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) offended the entire Congressional Black Caucus by delivering Chick-fil-A chicken and biscuits to their weekly meeting -- and then walking out -- when it was his turn to provide the group with a formal lunch.
Excerpt: Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company. The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions.
Report: Cronyism, political donations likely behind Obama, Holder failure to charge any bankers after 2008 financial meltdown
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/07/report-cronyism-political-donations-likely-behind-obama-holder-failure-to-charge-any-bankers-after-2008-financial-meltdown/
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/07/report-cronyism-political-donations-likely-behind-obama-holder-failure-to-charge-any-bankers-after-2008-financial-meltdown/
Excerpt: A new report from the conservative Government Accountability Institute (GAI) finds that President Barack Obama’s and Attorney General Eric Holder’s failure to criminally charge any top Wall Street bankers is likely a result of cronyism inside the Department of Justice and political donations made to Obama’s campaign.
Excerpt: The tough-as-nails cop who was struck by up to nine bullets while aiding shooting victims at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin
October Surprise Israel
Excerpt: U.S. intelligence analysts watching for indicators of Israeli military action recently reported that there are signs the Jewish state plans an attack against Iran
Two govt sites show high drunk driving for Hispanics
Excerpt: Caetano’s analysis of FBI statistics for 1981 indicated that among persons 18 years of age and older, the arrest rate for driving under the influence was more than twice as high for Hispanics as non-Hispanics (Caetano 1984). Specifically, the rate per 100,000 population was 1,712.2 for Hispanics and 742.6 for non-Hispanics.
Green Profiteers. By Jacob Laksin
Excerpt: While the economy limps along, one industry is thriving: Environmental lawsuits against the federal government are moving ahead at a steady pace — and taxpayers are picking up the tab for the expensive litigation.
Suicide as a Jewish Value. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: A month ago, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz sat down with the host of a Jewish television channel and could not name any reason for Jews to vote for Obama except for his support for abortion. Which is to say that the favorite muppet of the Democratic Party could not think of any reason to support B.O. except a mutual commitment that fewer Jews be born. It is a little-known fact that Margaret Sanger, that pioneer of eugenic solutions to “racial, political, and social problems”, began by targeting Jews, opening her first center in Brownsville , Brooklyn , complete with Yiddish and Italian flyers, aiming for the two immigrant groups whose high reproduction rates were considered a social problem.
Excerpt: Yesterday, Abdelfatah Mourou, a prominent Tunisian Islamist figure, was hospitalized after he was attacked by an attendee of a conference entitled, Tolerance in Islam, which he was heading in Kairouan.
Five Pakistani militants killed by own bomb
At least five militants were killed Monday when a bomb they were planting on a roadside exploded prematurely in Pakistan
Al Qaeda trio arrested in Spain 'wanted to attack busy Gibraltar shopping centre from the air during the Olympics'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184311/Al-Qaeda-trio-arrested-Spain-wanted-attack-busy-Gibraltar-shopping-centre-air-Olympics.html#ixzz22sNZAnSj
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184311/Al-Qaeda-trio-arrested-Spain-wanted-attack-busy-Gibraltar-shopping-centre-air-Olympics.html#ixzz22sNZAnSj
Excerpt: Three suspected Al Qaeda terrorists arrested in Spain last week could have been planning to launch a devastating attack on a busy Gibraltar shopping centre from the air.
Spanish security services suspect the trio - two Chechen Russians and a Turk - were planning to assault the British colony to the south of Spain
Excerpt: International Christian Concern wrote on its website that “Saudi Arabia
Why Europe Matters… And How Spain
Excerpt: Many people have been writing in to ask me, “why are you focusing on Europe so much? Who cares about Spain Spain Spain could potentially take down the banking system in Europe, which would mean the US
Cops Go After TWITTER After It Shields Theater-Threat Nut. By Jamie Schram
Excerpt: The NYPD will subpoena Twitter today to force the social-media site to identify a psycho poster who is threatening a “Batman”-style shooting rampage at a Broadway theater, The Post has learned. “This s--t ain’t no joke yo — I’m serious, people are gonna die like aurora,” the lunatic scrawled in one tweet, referring to last month’s massacre at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater during a midnight premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises.”
The Sex Bots Have Arrived
Warning: Adult content (ideas, not dirty pictures). Technology is catching up with Time. --Ron P. Excerpt: So in the case of we Millennials and our immersion in a culture of Baby Boomer-fueled, post-60s, mainstreamed sex and pornography, what is it that we have dekhed and what will the backlash be as these new bizarre sex-simulators develop into full-blown digital, virtual sex? (Darn it, Ron, I told you only send WITH dirty pictures! ~Bob.)
Tolerance, Kuwait
Excerpt: Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait
Take Me Down to Parasite City : Washington , D.C.
Excerpt: The District is booming! "Washington may have the healthiest economy of any major metropolitan area in the country," says New York Times D.C.
Brussels 2012: Conny Axel Meier's Speech. By Baron Bodissey
Excerpt: Conny Axel Meier is a publicist living in Gemmingen (Southern Germany ). He is the Chief Executive Manager of Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa (Citizens’ Movement Pax Europa, BPE), the foremost Human Rights organization in Germany, which fights against the rising threats being imposed by the Islamization of Europe. BPE is an independent non-partisan movement and distances itself from all right-wing or left-wing extremists and all xenophobic movements.
The Real Poll Numbers. By Dick Morris
Excerpt: Romney is currently leading in every state McCain carried plus: Indiana , New Hampshire , Wisconsin , Nevada , North Carolina , and Colorado
Federal government’s open-door immigration policy on welfare under fire. By Caroline May
Excerpt: The federal government allows immigrants to enjoy America
MoveOn.org circulates petition for Reid. By Caroline May
Excerpt: The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is rushing to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s assistance, circulating a petition currently boasting 2,239 signatures to get Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to release 10 years of tax returns. “We stand with Majority Leader Harry Reid in asking Mitt Romney to release 10 years worth of tax returns,” the petition reads.
Allen West: Students who voted Obama in ’08 ‘are back home with mommy and daddy.’ By Melissa Quinn
Excerpt: Tea party favorite Florida Rep. Allen West described progressive political ideals as “enticing to young people at first, but that reality has a way of deflating those ideals…. “When you think about now that you have about forty five to fifty percent of those college graduates that just matriculated through that have probably voted for the president back in 2008, they are back home with Mommy and Daddy,” he continued. “So the hope and change message, and all that enthusiasm and all the rah-rah sounded real good to them but now the practicality of life has hit them in the face and it doesn’t work out.”
Trailer Talk: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Teaser Taunts Accusations Of Intelligence Leaks
Excerpt: It's almost as if the folks who spliced and diced the 1:15 minutes worth of promotional footage were mocking the fact that a sitting Congressman suspects the White House leaked secret information to the film's crew in an effort to boost President Barack Obama's re-election chances….."Zero Dark Thirty" was originally slated to bow before the Nov. 6 elections until conservatives questioned the timing of the release as well as the intelligence issues surrounding the film. And that was before we learned a stack of papers on the topic was suddenly found - but not immediately handed over to the public - by the C.I.A.
Obama Administration Paves The Way For Sharia Law. By William Bigelow http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/03/Obama-administration-paves-the-way-for-sharia-law
Excerpt: The most terrifying danger Americans face from a second Barack Obama term isn’t the economy, which is scary enough. The most harrowing prospect is the Obama Administration’s passivity in the face of attempts to introduce aspects of sharia law into our legal system. Now there is strong and open evidence of the Obama administration collaborating with Islamist activists to ensure the path toward sharia law is accelerated.
The Watch (2012)
Excerpt: Four everyday suburban guys come together to form a neighborhood watch group…. (Now playing at a theater near you. Used to be titled “Neighborhood Watch” until, well, you know…Barb.)
Just Curious
Excerpt: Why is it that when a nutjob gunman named Nidal Malik Hasan goes on a murderous rampage yelling "Allahu Akbar!" the authorities insist there's 'no connection to terrorism," but the dumb-ass loony white guy named Wade Michael Page goes on a murderous rampage without saying a damn thing ... and the authorities immediately label it an act of terrorism before they even know the motive behind it or have investigated it?
Study: One-third of doctors wouldn't take new Medicaid patients last year. By Sarah Kliff
Excerpt: [Sandra Decker's] research, published this afternoon in the journal Health Affairs, is the first that has ever given a state-by-state look at doctors’ willingness to accept Medicaid. That makes it a helpful report to understand the factors that influence doctors’ participation in Medicaid, alongside the public policy levers that could encourage them to join up.
The Natural Map of Europe . By Pat Buchanan
Excerpt: "Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. ... One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind." So wrote H.G. Wells in "What Is Coming: A Forecast of Things to Come After the War" in the year of Verdun Versailles
New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism
Old article, but since this article, Wikipedia reportedly has been censored; no longer contains information on use of “Forward” by Marxists and Communists. So much for free speech. What law? –Barb. Excerpt: The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, "Forward" — a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism. Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name "Forward!" or its foreign cognates. …The slogan "Forward!" reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism.
Wikipedia Kills Page Linking Obama Slogan to Socialist Movement. By Noam Cohen
Excerpt: The effort to get Wikipedia to include articles on the socialist roots of the Obama-Biden campaign’s slogan, “Forward,” ended in failure on Tuesday. The article, linking the Democratic slogan to uses of the title “Forward” by various leftist publications, had become a subject of interest among some publications on the right, including The Daily Caller and commentators like Neal Boortz. …. After a debate among readers who also cast votes on the issue, the Wikipedia administrator essentially killed the page by having it redirect to the general article on the Obama-Biden presidential campaign; all that is left of the original article is the simple statement: “On April 30, 2012, the campaign announced that its slogan would be ‘Forward.’”
The 1% Solution. By William L. Gensert
Excerpt: Yet it is the elite progressives who are the true 1%. The hardcore left, while few in number, seem to always dominate the national conversation, in support of an America
Airing Harry Reid’s Dirty Laundry. By Steve Baldwin
Excerpt: Senator Harry Reid claims to be an ethical politician and he often employs his Mormon religion in order to demonstrate his alleged immaculacy. However, the reality is that he is, in fact, one of the most ethically challenged politicians in office today. This report will review his alliances with corrupt individuals, his support of ACORN, his ties with organized crime figures and his chronic failure to comply with campaign finance laws.
Prince of fools, a multitude of fools
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that you can quickly understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic Prague America America
Cordially, Larry Greenberg
GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party: A veteran Republican says the religious right has taken over, and turned his party into anti-intellectual nuts. By Mike Lofgren
Excerpt: Having observed politics up close and personal for most of my adult lifetime, I have come to the conclusion that the rise of politicized religious fundamentalism may have been the key ingredient in the transformation of the Republican Party. Politicized religion provides a substrate of beliefs that rationalizes—at least in the minds of its followers—all three of the GOP’s main tenets: wealth worship, war worship, and the permanent culture war. (From the left. Need to know what they are thinking and saying. ~Bob.)
Sharia Law in Canada
Excerpt: Sharia Law is advancing in Canada Canada for years have tacitly recognized Sharia law for Canada ’s Muslim minority by sending multiple welfare checks to polygamous Muslim men who raise multiple families in Canada
US kills AQAP bombmaker, 9 fighters in pair of strikes in Yemen
Excerpt: The US launched two drone strikes against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen US has now conducted three strikes in Yemen
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