Old Jarhead's Political
SitRep for October 28, 2012
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must read critically and with skepticism.
Worth Sharing Widely: 13-Year-Old Jenny Gives Report
Cards to Obama and Romney
Excerpt: Who warned that "increasing federal
expenditures" would "demoralize both the government and our
economy"? Eleven months before he was assassinated as he rode with his
wife in the back seat of an open convertible in a motorcade through downtown Dallas , President John F.
Kennedy delivered a major address to the Economic Club of New York at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on December 14, 1962. The unemployment rate that month
was 5.5 percent. The annual inflation rate was 1.3 percent. The sticker price
on a new Chevy Impala convertible was $2,919. Gas was 31 cents a gallon.
The
Death of Politics and the Birth of Democracy: As party politics perish, people
power is born. By Daniel Hannan
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100186768/the-death-of-politics-and-the-birth-of-idemocracy/
Excerpt: At the very moment that government action reaches its limit, saysDouglas ,
technological change renders it redundant. The Internet puts into the hands of
a private citizen information which, 15 years ago, an entire department would
have struggled to compile. The revolution in communications is cutting out the
middleman.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100186768/the-death-of-politics-and-the-birth-of-idemocracy/
Excerpt: At the very moment that government action reaches its limit, says
Father
of Tyrone Woods on Benghazi
http://moonbattery.com/?p=19885
Excerpt: “When [Obama] came over to our little area” at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, “he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m sorry.’ His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, ‘I’m really sorry, you know, that your son died,’ but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, ‘I’m sorry.’”
http://moonbattery.com/?p=19885
Excerpt: “When [Obama] came over to our little area” at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, “he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m sorry.’ His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, ‘I’m really sorry, you know, that your son died,’ but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, ‘I’m sorry.’”
Show
10: Benghazi
http://www.soopermexican.com/2012/10/27/show-10-benghazi-standdown/
Excerpt: Hello my Gringos. Today our contributors @DefendWallSt and Matt Dawson (@SaintRPH) talk aboutBenghazi
http://www.soopermexican.com/2012/10/27/show-10-benghazi-standdown/
Excerpt: Hello my Gringos. Today our contributors @DefendWallSt and Matt Dawson (@SaintRPH) talk about
‘Epic reform’ needed
to fix growing VA claims backlog, says former official
Excerpt: The inspector general also found that eleven VA
employees managing the conference, improperly took gifts
from contractors looking to do business or already in business with the
VA. Investigators found 335,000
encryption software of 400,000 licenses procured, still hadn’t been installed
at a cost of $5.1 million. The VA backlog of claims has also been piling
up despite the VA now having 300,000 employees — making it the second largest
agency in the federal government — and requested $140
billion for 2013. (Regime jumped on nationalization of US Health system because
1/6th of economy and, like a tumor, wanted to feed off an artery that
supplies lifeblood for country (and jobs). They demanded electronic
records from private sector and have not even instituted electronic records in
their own VA facilities. Vets are faced with literally reams of
papers with claims and stonewalling. With Obamacare, the nation will be
subjected to the regime’s “efficiency.” --Barb.)
Malala Yousafzai
recovering “at an encouraging speed”
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/27/malala-yousafzai-recovering-at-an-encouraging-speed/#ixzz2AWOPsW9Z
Excerpt: Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old student who was
shot by a member of the Taliban, is recovering well in the a Birmingham hospital.
Yousafzai’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, called the girl’s attacker “an
agent of Satan.” “She got right treatment, at the right place and at the right
time,” he added, referring to the hospital care Malala has received. (The
British Health System is the “right treatment” for this child? Too bad
the US does
not have the balls to offer to help this child and her family. Oh, no,
regime in bed with the Taliban as well… Used to be American Healthcare
attracted heads of state from around the world when they were ill…Barb)
Audit: Green jobs
stimulus program wastes cash
Excerpt: President Obama’s green jobs training program,
which was part of his stimulus, has failed on most key jobs measures, according
to a new internal audit that found it was training workers who already had jobs
that didn’t need green energy skills, and was failing
to place new enrollees in jobs once they finished the training. The Labor Department’s
inspector general also said grantees who received the green jobs-training money
did a poor job of reporting their results.
Obama’s game of Battleship could prove deadly ---Planned budget cuts will not ‘maintain’ defense. By Capt. Duncan D Hunter USMC and Congressman R-
Excerpt: Meanwhile, when it was convenient on the debate
stage, the president said, without any further explanation, that sequestration
“will not happen.” That’s a first, coming from the president, following more
than a year of contradictory statements and inaction, thus explaining why his
latest prediction has received so much attention.
Bill O’Reilly Tears
Into Brian Williams For Giving Obama A ‘Pass’ On Libya
Excerpt: O’Reilly brought up a report that said urgent
requests for backup in the Benghazi
consulate were not followed up on by the CIA. During a radio interview, Obama
claimed that he was not “personally aware of” any security requests. O’Reilly
sighed and criticized Obama for not being able to explain exactly what happened
in Libya .
He could not comprehend why the president is still unable to clarify the
situation, considering how much misinformation was put out by his
administration.
Obama’s fanciful claim that Congress ‘proposed’ the sequester.
By Glenn Kessler
WaPo Fact Checker: Now, in the
final presidential debate, Obama sought to toss the hot potato of
sequestration — the process that is forcing those defense cuts and reductions
in domestic spending — into Congress’s lap. ... We had been wavering between
Three and Four Pinocchios. But in light’s of Lew’s decision to doubledown on
Obama’s claim, we agree it’s a whopper.
Glass Jaw O-ba-ma. By
Hugh Hewitt
Excerpt: If Peggy Noonan is correct, and the president’s
performance in the first debate revealed him to be “[p]etulant, put upon,
above it all, full of himself,” then the two weeks since have shown him to
own what they call in the world of boxing, “a glass jaw.” A glass jaw is the
inability of a fighter to take a direct hit, one on the chin, a roundhouse.
Once hit, a glass jaw boxer goes down and usually doesn’t get back up. If he
does manage to get on his feet, he staggers around, lost and confused. for the
rest of the fight as his opponent pummels him. “Staggering around” is the best
way to describe the president’s actions since the first debate in Denver . Mitt Romney has
grown larger, more confident, full of energy and optimism, and not just about
his campaign and the election, but for the country.
Worth Sharing: CBS This Morning: Doing business the
Mormon way
CBS (!) runs a positive piece on Mitt Romney! ~Bob.
Worth Sharing: RJC Presents: "Perilous
Times"
About Obama and Israel .
Reagan Defense Official: If Obama Really Gave The Order To
Secure Libya
A former Department of Defense official said Friday that if
President Barack Obama really gave an order to secure U.S. personnel when the consulate in Libya came
under assault, there will a paper trail to prove it. Francis “Bing” West, who
served as an assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, told
Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren that the president’s explanation about his actions
when the U.S. mission in Benghazi was attacked
should be easily verifiable.
Link to photos Romney
Ryan Sign Blitz. From Marine vet Bob Greer.
Excerpt: Well, we recently learned that Newsweek will cease
printing a paper edition of the weekly news magazine in December. Good.
Newsweek is a prime example of the madness of liberals; they would rather
die in some weird form of martyrdom than clean up their act and offer unbiased
and objective reporting.
Absentee Ballots Sent To Military ‘Burned In Crash’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/26/absentee-ballots-destroyed-in-crash
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/26/absentee-ballots-destroyed-in-crash
Excerpt: Federal officials say that absentee ballots being
sent to U.S. military
serving in Afghanistan Germany and
was able to get an electronic ballot thru my email. I didn't have to wait for a
ballot. True, I have to print it, fill it in and snail-mail it back, but no
waiting time on getting a ballot. Why is it so hard to do in A-stan? All those
Service Members can fill in the application as I did and get an answer within a
few days. I didn't even start the process until after the beginning of Oct. and
my ballot is already in Texas (my
home state). Me thinks someone high up doesn't want our Service Members
to know about this easy to use alternative. If by chance any Service Member
happens to see this, below is the link to register to vote in your state and receive
an electronic ballot. http://www.fvap.gov/
Father of slain SEAL
Tyrone Woods accuses White House of murder [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/26/father-of-slain-seal-tyrone-woods-accuses-white-house-of-murder-video/#ixzz2AU4FSRxi
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/26/father-of-slain-seal-tyrone-woods-accuses-white-house-of-murder-video/#ixzz2AU4FSRxi
Excerpt: On Friday’s “America Live” on the Fox News Channel,
Chip Woods, the father of slain Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods said the lack of
response from the Obama administration on Sept. 11, 2012 showed “cowardice.”
And he labeled as “murderers” the administration officials who stalled the
decision to act immediately to the terrorist attack that claimed his son’s
life, and lied about it afterward. While Woods disapproves of the White House’s
response to the attack on the U.S. consulate
in Benghazi , Libya
U.N. Human Rights
Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies
Excerpt: The Washington Free Beacon has
obtained a report soon to be released by the United Nations that
calls for an international campaign of legal attacks and economic warfare on a
group of American companies that do business in Israel , including Hewlett-Packard,
Caterpillar Inc., and Motorola Solutions Inc. The Human Rights Council (HRC), a
body dominated by Islamic countries and known for its hostility to, and heavy
focus on, the Jewish State, issued the report. The George W. Bush
administration refused to participate in the HRC, but President Barack Obama
joined it soon after taking office. (Obama joined a majorly radical group, and
... now its anti-Israel agenda is going to threaten US companies! --Del. But Obama said he stands with Israel ... ~Bob.)
Humanitarian
Hypocrisy. By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: Muslim Turks care about American Indians, and U.S.
Protestants care about Muslim Palestinians—but no one cares about persecuted
Christians. The world's double standards concerning which peoples qualify as
oppressed and deserving of help are staggering. Two recent stories illustrate
this point:
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