Old Jarhead's Political SitRep for November 1, 2012
Robert A. Hall
NO SitRep until at least Monday
I will be traveling on business through late Sunday, November 4, 2012, and will have very little computer time, though I hope to pop on and post a few things I’ve been saving. Yes, it’s crunch time in the election, but there it is, as duty calls. You are on your own for news. If you can hold e-mails it will help. Work hard. Keep the faith. I truly believe Tuesday is the most fateful election for the Republic since 1960. I have not been an early fan of Mitt Romney, but he is probably one of the most decent men ever to run for president. That he should have been demonized in the minds of half the public by a gang of Chicago-Way thugs and their corrupt, biased media sycophants is revolting. Obama is promising lots of treats for Halloween. The trick is in who gets the bill. ~Bob.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Now to get to the bottom of the President's (non) decision and analyze his motives - for he swore oath to protect the United States of America
Excerpt: After the last election, I happened to be home from the wars, and in Washington DC Iraq and Afghanistan
Excerpt: Egyptian security forces have reportedly foiled a jihadist plot to attack resorts in the Sinai Peninsula . According to Al-Hayat, five jihadists were arrested near the border with Gaza Sinai Peninsula is high on the list of vacation and tourist destinations I’d visit if I had the time and money for a lot of travel. On even low on the list. ~Bob.)
Emails link White House to discussion of Abound Solar loan guarantee
Excerpt: The White House was involved in discussions for a $400 million federal loan guarantee awarded to Longmont-based Abound Solar, which later went bankrupt, e-mails released by a Congressional committee show.
Heroes: NYU Nurses, First Responders Save Newborns, Critical Care Patients. By Tony Lee
Excerpt: When emergency back-up generators at New York University Langone Medical Center-Tisch Hospital failed Monday night during Hurricane Sandy, nurses and first responders improvised. These heroes used their instincts, and relied on training exercises to dramatically save the lives over 200 patients, 20 whom were babies in the hospital's neonatal unit and 45 of whom were patients in critical condition. Some were on battery-operated respirators.
Excerpt: Former President Bill Clinton took a swipe Tuesday at Mitt Romney's position on climate change in the aftermath of the landfall of Hurricane Sandy, saying that President Obama's policies were better for the environment. (...) While scientists have largely balked at pinning any one event on global warming, the consensus is that the current rash of extreme weather — including record-breaking temperatures across the country — could well be the result of man-made climate change — and could contribute to destructive Atlantic hurricane seasons. (Oh, the trials and tribulations of trying to be an honest liberal journalist at a center-left media outlet. The author CAN’T say outright that Clinton UK Sandy is practically the only hurricane to do any significant damage to the US Clinton
Hidden Cam Prank!! Obama-Style Halloween!
Excerpt: Hurricane Sandy is expected to take a $20 billion bite out of the U.S.
Polls show race tightening in Ohio , Florida , Virginia
Excerpt: Polls show a tight presidential race is getting even closer just a week before Election Day. A handful of polls released Tuesday found President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney either tied or within 1 percentage point of each other, and none of the polls showed either candidate with 50 percent support. (I think any state where the legit polls—if there are any—have a tie will be carried by Romney, due to higher enthusiasm on our side. ~Bob.)
Romney proves his mettle as a candidate
Excerpt: But with less than a week until the election, Romney has again united conservatives and the mainstream media — this time, out of mutual surprise over just how good a candidate he’s proven to be.
Green Jobs Stimulus Program Wastes Cash
The Obama administration has been eager to transition from conventional sources of energy to alternatives that rely on clean technologies. One facet of this transition has been to create a program that trains people to fill jobs in the alternative energy sector. However, an internal audit found that the jobs training program has failed on most key measures, says the Washington Times. The government earmarked more than $400 million for the program. More than $328 million of it has already been spent. The audit found that the program was training workers that already had jobs and didn't need green energy skills. Furthermore, only 38 percent of those who have completed training got jobs based on it. Only 16 percent of those people kept their jobs for six months.
Obama admin's 'loose lips' under investigation: Grand jury to review use of classified information for political gain. By Bob Unruh
Excerpt: Members of a “citizens’ grand jury” will meet next week in Ocala, Fla., to look at allegations that the “loose lips” of the Obama administration led to the deaths of dozens of members of the U.S. military and the imprisonment of a Pakistan physician who helped locate Osama bin Laden – all to “bolster” the “political agendas” of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. (Nothing will come of this. The difference between Watergate and Obama scandals like Fast and Furious, Benghazi
Syrian Air Force Commander Is Reported Killed
Excerpt: Syria’s state television said Tuesday that insurgents had assassinated an air force commander in Damascus, as news accounts from antigovernment activists reported an intensified aerial bombing campaign against rebel targets, including the first warplane attack inside the Syrian capital since the conflict began 20 months ago. (Making a “truce” with Muslims is as effective as making one with communists, even for fellow Muslims. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Egypt
Excerpt: I just can’t believe reporters don’t know enough to ask the right questions! It’s infuriating. Libya Germany
Crunch time for Obama’s weak economic numbers: Recovery begins with a President Romney. By Donald Lambro
Excerpt: The bleak truth about the comatose Obama economy is not just that it’s barely breathing. It’s still not far from another recession. President Obama’s campaign bid for another four years is loosely based on the preposterous claim that the economy is “moving forward.” In fact, it’s been falling backward or at least treading water on a number of fronts, and economic forecasters say it will weaken further under his policies if he is re-elected.
Gingrich: If Media Is Right That Ohio
Excerpt: First, Ohio
Excerpt: If you want to understand why conservatives have lost faith in the so-called mainstream media, you need to ponder the question: Where is the Benghazi
Mitt for President. Acadia Parish Today
New Book: TITLE: DEROS Vietnam
DEROS Vietnam America Vietnam veteran Doug Bradley, a former Army journalist who served in the “air-conditioned jungle” at U. S. Army Headquarters near Saigon in 1970-71, tells these compelling stories with wit, intensity, and empathy. In doing so, he provides a gateway to a Vietnam experience that has thus far been largely ignored and whose reverberations still echo across America
This Early Vote Calculation from Gallup
Excerpt: It hasn't gotten too much attention outside of talk radio, but if accurate, Gallup's study of early voters neutralizes one of the Obama campaign's best road-to-victory talking points. As it conducted tracking polls (which have been paused for now), Gallup
Excerpt: Markets are powerful institutions. They allow people to interact with one another and achieve things they could not achieve acting on their own. They allocate resources in ways that no single individual or government bureaucrat could even begin to duplicate. They lower the social costs of meeting human wants and needs far better than any other institution known to man. Market outcomes may on occasion be improved by judicious government regulation. But it is almost never worthwhile to suppress the market entirely in almost any field of human endeavor. I find that most people who are disdainful of commerce and who think that exchange in the marketplace somehow diminishes and sullies the human spirit are people who invariably do not understand basic economics.
Excerpt: On this Halloween, a truly frightening specter is looming. No amount of garlic, crosses, or exorcists can help us—only Congress and the President can chase this ghoul away. It’s Taxmageddon. A horrifying combination of expiring pro-growth tax policies from 2001 and 2003, the end of the once-temporary payroll tax cut, and just a few of Obamacare’s 18 new tax hikes, Taxmageddon will be the largest tax increase EVER to hit Americans. It’s nearly $500 billion in one year, starting January 1. That’s two months away.
Romney gets boost from NH newspaper endorsement
Excerpt: Gov. Mitt Romney got a small jolt of campaign-trail caffeine on Tuesday, with the news that one of New Hampshire Nashua , N.H.
As many as 50 Obama-backed green energy companies bankrupt or troubled. By Michael Bastasch
Excerpt: The October bankruptcy of solar company Satcon Technology Corp. puts the number of bankrupt or troubled green energy companies as high as 50, according to one estimate. (The wheels of the free market grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: To hold that numbers and mass in war are unnecessary is as dangerous as believing that they are sufficient. Defense contractor Norman Augustine famously observed that at the rate fighter planes are becoming complex and expensive, soon we will be able to build just one. Neither a plane nor a ship, no matter how capable, can be in more than one place at once. And if one ship that is in some ways equivalent to 100 is damaged or lost, we have lost the equivalent of 100.
No bayonets, Mr. President? Bayonets in Basra
Excerpt: In May 2004, approximately 20 British troops in Basra
Quotes from The Patriot Post
"Government has become so vast and impersonal that its interests diverge more and more from the interests of ordinary citizens. For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington Main Street Main Street
I don't know why everything has to be a partisan issue. Why can't everyone of all political persuasions come together and hate Democrats?" --humorist Frank J. Fleming
"I don't know if you've heard that Don't Ask-Don't Tell is back. It's Obama's new policy on Benghazi
"The White House e-mails on September 11th were leaked, identifying the al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. Pearl Harbor on an anti-Japanese newsreel." --comedian Argus Hamilton
"In Wisconsin
Obama's Layoff Bomb. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: In June, a diffident and self-deluded President Obama claimed that "the private sector is doing fine." Last week, the private sector responded: Speak for yourself, buster. Who needs an "October Surprise" when the business headlines are broadcasting the imminent layoff bomb in neon lights?
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The Washington Post (10/25/2012), in giving President Barack Obama an endorsement for another four years, wrote, "Much of the 2012 presidential campaign has dwelt on the past, but the key questions are who could better lead the country during the next four years -- and, most urgently, who is likelier to put the government on a more sound financial footing." The suggestion appears to be that a president is not to be held accountable to his promises and past record and that his past record is no indication of his future behavior. Possibly, the Washington Post people believe that a black president shouldn't be held accountable to his record and campaign promises.
1775 Hurricane Had A Thirty Foot Storm Surge
Excerpt: It wiped out many British ships and killed 4,000 people.
The Newfoundland Hurricane of 1775, also known as the Independence Hurricane, was a hurricane that hit the Colony of Newfoundland in September 1775. It is believed to have killed at least 4,000 people, making it one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes of all time. (Teach the Brits to drive SUVs! ~Bob.)
NY Times Called Bush’s 2.7% GDP a ‘Letdown,’ But Obama’s Lower GDP a ‘Steady Improvement.’ By Brent Baker
Excerpt: The leftist bias of the New York Times beautifully encapsulated in seven words used about a week before two presidential elections. Headline over Saturday’s editorial on the third quarter GDP creeping up to 2.0 percent under Democrat Barack Obama: “Slow but Steady Improvement.” Headline twenty years ago (October 29, 1992) when Republican incumbent George H.W. Bush was in the White House and the third quarter GDP nearly doubled to 2.7 percent: “Gross National Letdown.”
Obama Met With Panetta and Biden at WH As Benghazi Terror Attack Unfolded, refused help as people were murdered
Excerpt: Every day brings a new blockbuster. Obama has lost the military, the State Department and the Intelligence community. It's one leak after another. He has made enemies of all of them. He betrayed them all. We will find out every detail of Obama's abandonment of the American people and treasonous cover-up of this act of war.
Why We're Still In Deep Trouble No Matter Who Wins the Presidency. By Rachel Marsden
Excerpt: Regardless of who wins the U.S.
Obama’s Wars Aren’t Over. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: On the campaign trail of a war-weary nation, Obama is running as the man who successfully concluded three wars. This assertion, like so many others, only works if you close your eyes, stick your head deep in the sand and count to a few million. Wars, unlike elections, do not begin and end on schedule.
Excerpt: I just recently finished watching Obama 2016, the documentary movie. It's now available on U tube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDY6v8KdSYs&feature=youtu.be I really recommend that you not watch this movie alone. It will scare the hell out of you and shake you to your roots. The movie goes a long way in explaining how Obama became a Socialist. It also reminds us how little we knew about this community organizer and why we have become so amazed by his failures as President.
Three Strikes And You’re Out! By Burt Prelutsky
Excerpt: I realize that some people have been raving about Obama’s final two debate appearances. But, for the most part, those are people named David Axelrod, Jay Leno, Joy Behar, David Letterman and Chris Matthews. But the truth is that no rational person would ever say he mopped the floor with Mitt Romney; the most you can say for Obama is that he did better after awakening from his self-induced coma, even if in doing so, he spouted more fibs than Joe Isuzu.
If You Want to Repeal Obamacare, Support Akin & Mourdock. By Erick Erickson
Excerpt: What has been overshadowed by pro-life remarks made by Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock is that the Republicans must take back the United States Senate to have a chance of repealing Obamacare. Even if Mitt Romney wins, it will be for naught if Harry Reid still controls the Senate. That is the reality. That is why Republicans must rally to two gentlemen who are committed pro-lifers, but who said things in defense of children that others have decided to beat them up about.
Hurricane Sandy a ‘divine slap on the face of U.S. arrogance,’ Toronto
Everyone brings religion into it. Muslims say it was caused by Allah, Al Gore by the Church of Global Warming
Islamists respond with bullets to jokes of Somali comedian
Guess they didn’t get the “Islam is a Religion of Peace” memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: Gunmen assassinated a well-known comedian and musician who poked fun at Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents in the Somali capital Mogadishu
Excerpt: "It's really surprising," said Saeed Fahia, executive director of the nonprofit Confederation of the Somali Community in Minnesota
Eurozone unemployment rises to new record
Excerpt: Unemployment in the 17-country eurozone hit a record high of 11.6 percent in September, official figures showed Wednesday, a sign the economy is deteriorating as governments struggle to get a grip on their three-year debt crisis. (The EU hook was baited with promises of more economic prosperity, and then came the single currency and the Eurozone, promising the same. It looked too good to be true, but not to worry. It was. The photo illustrates what the people got instead. It was to be expected since economies are organic systems, requiring oxygen and latitude to develop and grow, and too much outside tampering can rob them of these things, throwing them into a tailspin. Ditto the USA Europe and our Keynesian leadership is equally far removed from reality. Our debt and unfunded liabilities threaten to plunge us into the same abyss if not worse. Neither party and neither candidate will save us. The question is, don't people get the leadership they deserve? --Don Hank)
A word to rioting Muslims
Bumper Stickers
Excerpt: Tonight on Hannity, Charles Woods, the father of murdered Benghazi SEAL Tyrone Woods, accused the White House of watching his son die. Woods said White House officials watched the attack for seven hours and did nothing.
Excerpt: Regular readers know that we’ve never been optimists about the results of President Obama’s decision to wage an air war in Libya
With Election Day approaching, Republicans far more enthusiastic. By B. Daniel Blatt
Excerpt: But, despite this skew, each survey shows greater Republican enthusiasm in each state, up 16 points over the Democrats in Florida, 14 in Ohio and 7 in Virginia. In each state, Republican enthusiasm has increased since the previous survey, causing Stacy McCain to ask, How is it that Republicans report greater voting enthusiasm by such large margins, and yet are underrepresented in the poll’s sample? It makes no sense.
Romney op-ed: U.S.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120214/OPINION01/202140336#ixzz2AtdtZpjs
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120214/OPINION01/202140336#ixzz2AtdtZpjs
Excerpt: Instead of doing the right thing and standing up to union bosses, Obama rewarded them. A labor union that had contributed millions to Democrats and his election campaign was granted an ownership share of Chrysler and a major stake in GM, two flagships of the industry. The U.S. Department of Treasury — American taxpayers — was asked to become a majority stockholder of GM. And a politically connected and ethically challenged Obama-campaign contributor, the financier Steven Rattner, was asked to preside over all this as auto czar.
We do so despite endorsing Barack Obama four years ago. On Oct. 19, 2008, we wrote: “America
Obama’s Libya
Excerpt: President Obama is having no luck convincing voters and the media there is nothing amiss regarding his handling of the Benghazi
Tweet from Ken Gardner @kesgardner
Even the seriously overcooked CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac polls show Mitt with huge leads among independents and in voter enthusiasm.
Problem found at board of elections; Incorrect inputs irritate voter
Excerpt: MARION (Ohio
Worth Sharing: Voter Fraud: Will The Democrats Vote Early, and Often?
From Canada
What Did He Know and When Did He Know It? The Shadow Knows… By Michael Ledeen
Excerpt: You need agents, moles, penetrations, intercepts, the whole panoply of spycraft. But sometimes you don’t need any of that, all you need is to open your eyes, nose, and mind to what is right in front of your face. Benghazi
Sen. Brown makes closing pitch in new ad
WaPo: Lingering questions about Benghazi
Excerpt: The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi
New RNC Ad: “It’s Time to Vote , America
The Latest Disasters in Greece
Excerpt: The new Greek coalition government of left-wing and right-wing moderates hasn’t exactly lived up to its (very low) expectations. Greece
Excerpt: West Virginia Mingo County
Proven voting fraud! Gov't programmer testifies voting machines are rigging elections
VIDEO: Billionaire Hungarian Immigrant Makes His Own Ads to Tell the Truth About Socialism. Thomas Petterffy
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/10/31/video_billionaire_who_escaped_socialism_runs_ads_against_socialism
Excerpt: I grew up in a socialist country, and I have seen what that does to people: There is no hope, no freedom, no pride in achievement. The nation became poorer and poorer, and that's what I see happening here...America
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/10/31/video_billionaire_who_escaped_socialism_runs_ads_against_socialism
Excerpt: I grew up in a socialist country, and I have seen what that does to people: There is no hope, no freedom, no pride in achievement. The nation became poorer and poorer, and that's what I see happening here...
Flawed Poll Models Underestimating Romney’s Lead. By Russ Winter
Excerpt: Partisans on both sides have been making claims of a lead in the polls — the Republicans cite the national polls and the Democrats the state. I’m not a partisan or a Romney supporter, but I feel compelled to argue that the poll models are flawed and underestimating Romney’s lead. As far as modeling in these polls, the example of Marist and Mason-Dixon in Florida
Trump's proposition. By Kevin Gabriel
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1112/1112trumpsprop.htm
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1112/1112trumpsprop.htm
Excerpt: Donald Trump has done what the media refuses to do: he has asked that Barak Obama release his college records, applications, and passport information. He has pointed out that the "most transparent" president in American history is, in fact, the most opaque. In return for the release of these records, Mr. Trump has offered to redistribute to a charity of the President's choice $5 million of his personal wealth. Do you think the President will take him up on this? I wouldn't hold my breath. (He could offer to pay off the National debt and it would make no difference. Obama is hiding something. ~Bob.)
A Better Choice: The Case for Mitt Romney
Excerpt: Every election always seems like it is more important than the last, but this time it may actually be true. Americans will go to the polls and decide whether to keep our country on the same path we have been on for the past four years or to change course. There is one fact that should make this an obvious choice: Americans are not better off than they were four years ago.
4 Ways You Can Help Romney in last push
http://www.mittromney.com/blog/4-ways-you-can-help?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20121030_pdr_lb_4-ways-video_twitter&utm_content=pdr
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Misdirection from the White House. Daniel Halper
Excerpt: The real questions have to do with the decisions the president made or didn't make that
evening in consultation with his national security team. For example: How and
to whom did the president issue his alleged directive to do anything
possible to help the Americans under attack? About that and other relevant
questions, the White House continues to provide no answers at all.
DOJ Says If You
Choose To Start A Business, You Surrender Your First Amendment Rights
Excerpt: Hobby Lobby sued the government
over the health care mandates in Obamacare. The Department of Justice responded
to that lawsuit by saying business people surrender their religious rights when the enter the
marketplace: …If people retained their rights, how could the
government solve all the problems? That’s a huge look behind the curtain
at the great and powerful Oz, isn’t it? (A tip of the poker hand,
showing the “flexibility” that will exist if campaign won by regime..
Constitution shredded. This is why the Communist Party, Putin, Chavez and
Castro are so excited. --Barb)
Allen
West Calls Out Media Tracker During Vietnam
http://townhall.com/video/
Excerpt: "But it's more important, this day represents the memory of my older brother, who served in the United States Marine Corps, in Vietnam, in Charlie Company, First Battalion, 26th Marines....Let me stop for one minute. There is a person here that has been tracking me around, and she is here for political purposes and, young lady, I ask that you leave...because you are disrepectful to the men and women who have given themselves to this great nation...:
http://townhall.com/video/
Excerpt: "But it's more important, this day represents the memory of my older brother, who served in the United States Marine Corps, in Vietnam, in Charlie Company, First Battalion, 26th Marines....Let me stop for one minute. There is a person here that has been tracking me around, and she is here for political purposes and, young lady, I ask that you leave...because you are disrepectful to the men and women who have given themselves to this great nation...:
Libyan Leaks: Secret
Document reveals Al-Qaeda ‘brother’ put in control of U.S. Embassy in Tripoli
A treasure trove of secret documents has been obtained by a
Libyan source who says that secularists in his country are increasingly wanting
to see Mitt Romney defeat Barack Obama on November 6th.
This charge is being made despite Muslim Brotherhood losses in Libyan elections last July which
resulted in victory for the secularists. One of those documents may help explain
this sentiment.
Must See Videos!
Combat Veterans Speak out for Romney: The Video
GOP
Could See 'Tsunami' of Voters on Election Day. By Tony Lee
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-
Excerpt: Over the last two weeks, GOP political operatives have noted Democrats have been turning out "high-propensity voters" -- or voters who normally vote on Election Day -- for early voting, while Republicans have been turning "low propensity voters" -- or voters who traditionally do not vote on Election Day. This means Democrats have fewer voters to draw from their universe on Election Day while Republicans have more. (I fear wishful thinking. ~Bob.)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-
Excerpt: Over the last two weeks, GOP political operatives have noted Democrats have been turning out "high-propensity voters" -- or voters who normally vote on Election Day -- for early voting, while Republicans have been turning "low propensity voters" -- or voters who traditionally do not vote on Election Day. This means Democrats have fewer voters to draw from their universe on Election Day while Republicans have more. (I fear wishful thinking. ~Bob.)
PETA Wants a Memorial
to Dead Fish
Excerpt: An Irvine , California woman representing PETA wrote a letter to Irvine city officials
asking them to erect a sign at an intersection that memorializes the death of
about 1,600 pounds of saltwater bass who met their demise in a vehicle crash a
couple weeks ago. A truck was transporting the live fish to a market while the
bass were being kept alive by several tanks of oxygen. After the collision,
which involved two other cars, the fish and oxygen tanks spilled out all over
the intersection, and the fish quickly suffocated. The PETA representative
wants the sign to read: “In memory of hundreds of fish who suffered and
died at this spot.”