Old Jarhead's Political
SitRep for October 8, 2012
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Excerpt: The president is the luckiest politician in history.
He hasn't been in a real fight. And he doesn't like fights. The last time Obama
had a real challenge, it came from U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, who played the race
card against him (oh yes) and whipped him in a congressional campaign. After
that, Obama wised up.
Worth Reading
Excerpt:
As this election is largely about our pathetic economy - thanks to Mr. Obama's
peculiar philosophies and failed policies and absolute lack of business
experience and lack of basic economic common sense - Mr. Romney's remark will
most likely resonate more and more. And it will the more he repeats it - at
every opportunity.
Nice Comment: Local (Warren Buffett owned) newspaper
endorses Romney!
This is a total shock for me as our local newspaper is
usually a fairly liberal publication. I usually read it for entertainment and
get my news from "just bloggers" such as yourself. Thank you for
putting together your excellent SitReps. I often forward them on to friends and
post them to facebook, along with your disclaimer about doing our own research
on either side of a story. Thank you as well for your service as a Marine. My
family appreciates the sacrifices you've made to protect our freedoms. --Laura
This
should be a good show: CODE PINK Vagina Persons Now Going to Pakistan to follow
Pied Piper Imran Khan into almost certain danger
http://losangelescitycollege.blogspot.com/2012/10/code-pink-vagina-persons-now-going-to.html
Excerpt: [Imran] Khan, (former hubby of Goldsmith heiress Jemima Khan and] a former cricket star, is leading a convoy of thousands -- including political supporters, local community members and journalists [and lions and tiger and bears]-- into the troubled, restricted region to highlight the impact of drone strikes in Pakistan.
http://losangelescitycollege.blogspot.com/2012/10/code-pink-vagina-persons-now-going-to.html
Excerpt: [Imran] Khan, (former hubby of Goldsmith heiress Jemima Khan and] a former cricket star, is leading a convoy of thousands -- including political supporters, local community members and journalists [and lions and tiger and bears]-- into the troubled, restricted region to highlight the impact of drone strikes in Pakistan.
TWITTER,
FACEBOOK render fast judgement on Obama-Romney debate. Associated Press
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/arizona/politics/article_80fb8290-0e97-11e2-aac8-0019bb2963f4.html
Excerpt: Twitter scored Romney the debate's clear winner according to Peoplebrowsr, a Web analytics firm. The group found 47,141 tweets mentioning Romney and "win or winner" compared to just 29,677 mentioning Obama and "win or winner." Romney was also the top tweet in battleground states includingFlorida ,
Ohio , Nevada
and Colorado
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/arizona/politics/article_80fb8290-0e97-11e2-aac8-0019bb2963f4.html
Excerpt: Twitter scored Romney the debate's clear winner according to Peoplebrowsr, a Web analytics firm. The group found 47,141 tweets mentioning Romney and "win or winner" compared to just 29,677 mentioning Obama and "win or winner." Romney was also the top tweet in battleground states including
Humor.
Desperate Dems Hide
Behind Big Bird. By Michele Malkin
Excerpt: Mitt Romney sure ruffled a lot of feathers over his
proposal to eliminate taxpayer funding for government-sponsored TV. As soon as
the GOP presidential candidate singled out PBS for cuts during the presidential
debate in Denver ,
the hysterical squawking commenced.
It’s the
Altitude Stupid!
Excerpt: John Kerry and Bill Clinton will suggest: Hey, when
you inhale throughout your teens and twenties, and snort cocaine like Lindsay
Lohan, that’s what happens to your brain. It becomes fried by the time you hit
your forties and, well, basically, when you try to talk or clarify anything, or
at least pretend you are an intellect, you
suck like Lindsay Lohan on a bong.
Excerpt: Green is the color of death. Death of economies.
Death of peoples who will not be able to afford energy. Death of
industrialization, therefore jobs. Death of affordable goods. Death of
affordable services. Death of freedom of mobility.
Excerpt: Federal authorities in the United States
have been quietly supporting certain Mexican criminal
empires, especially the Sinaloa drug cartel, in a bid to solidify the
syndicates’ reign as dominant powerbrokers in particular territories, according
to leaked e-mails from a U.S.-based Mexican diplomat to the
private intelligence firm Stratfor. If cartel chiefs cooperate with
authorities, “governments will allow controlled drug trades,” the diplomatic
source wrote. (Too far fetched, Next they'll claim we've been giving
them guns. Oh, wait...~Bob.)
Excerpt: Get ready folks! With 30 or so days to go before
the November 6th election, and as Romney begins to close the gaps in the polls,
prepare yourself for the dirtiest Chicago style politics you're likely to ever
see. Obama learned his political skills in the most politically corrupt city in
America ;
a city where Democrats run out and register voters off the tombstones of dead
people. This is the city where, if you want a municipal or county job you not
only vote Democratic but you also participate in strong arm gang thuggery to
achieve the Dems' political goals.
AFP Responds To September Jobs Report With Silence.
By Tony Lee
On the day the national
unemployment rate was cut to 7.8 percent, Americans For Prosperity (AFP) on
Friday released what may be one of the most attention-grabbing and unconventional ads of the
2012 election cycle. The ad is titled “Dinner Table” and features a recently
unemployed father trying to eat dinner with his worried wife and two kids. …..
It is a scene that has been played in real life in millions of homes
across America during
the Great Recession and the so-called recovery.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Polling companies are now reporting that their
telephone results are working out like this: 38% could not be reached. 53% were
contacted but actively refused to answer. 9% cooperated and answered the
polling questions. In round figures, that means out of 10 phone numbers tried,
4 don’t answer at all, 5 answer and hang up, and only about 1 out of 10
actually cooperates. (The noise about polling is deafeningly offputting. If
Charlie Mann is correct (see highlights), enough people are either unavailable
or unwilling to respond to callers, therefore making the results statistical
wishful thinking. Could it be that potential respondents are somehow reluctant
to identify themselves as against this incumbent president? Cordially,
Larry Greenberg)
Top Iranian Official:
Iran Needs “24 Hours And An
Excuse” To Annihilate Israel
Excerpt: A top Iranian official says that Iran will be able to annihilate Israel within a
day.
Excerpt: Two bearded ultra-conservative men in Egypt attacked
four elementary schoolgirls walking down a street eating ice popsicles. The men
knocked the popsicles from the girls hands and began yelling at them.
Jack Welch Refuses To
Back Down On Unemployment Numbers In Fiery Exchange With Chris Matthews
Excerpt: In a heated debate with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews,
former General Electric CEO Jack Welch doubled-down on his claim that the
Bureau of Labor Statistics survey released Friday, which showed a spike in
employment and a drop in the unemployment metric from 8.1 percent to 7.8
percent, is bogus.
Obama Raises $150M in September, Tries to Block
'Blockbuster' Donor Scandal. By Tony Lee
Excerpt: President Barack Obama’s
campaign raised more than $150 million in September, which was a
record haul for the 2012 cycle, but the campaign may be actively trying to
block a story in the works about a “blockbuster donor scandal” that could put
its fundraising numbers under intense scrutiny. According to the Washington Examiner, “a taxpayer
watchdog group conducted a nine-month investigation” and uncovered
“thousands of cases of credit card solicitations and donations” to the Obama
campaign. Many of those donations have allegedly come from overseas and may be
in violation of federal election laws. (If I recall correctly, in 1996,
Bob Dole's entire campaign spending was something like $87M. ~Bob.)
PA Lawmaker Refuses To Say Pledge Of Allegiance
Excerpt: The drama unfolded at what was billed as a
non-controversial House State Government Committee meeting Wednesday morning.
Republican Chairman Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) asked Josephs to lead the group
in the Pledge of Allegiance; a rather routine request that became anything but
when Josephs refused. "Based on my First Amendment rights and based on the
fact that I really think it's a prayer.”
Stunner: Turkey Infiltrating Native American Tribes — and May Get
Congressional Help. By Marc J. Fink
Excerpt: …..Why the intense interest in business and
cultural ties with Native American tribes now, when Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist Justice and Development party (AKP) have
taken Turkey down
a path of aggressive and dangerous Islamism? Evidence from Uzbekistan points
to a possible motive: infiltration and Islamization. The government
of Uzbekistan is
claiming that private Turkish business interests in the Central Asian country
have been acting as a front for banned Islamist extremists. (Worked for the
Saudis, funding black “educational opportunities” ….come in the back door.
--Barb)
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al
Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria , has released two photographs of the
execution of Syrian soldiers reportedly captured in Aleppo [one of the photographs is reproduced
above]. The soldiers were "from the Hanano barracks" according to the
statement that was released by the group. The short statement was released on
Sept. 3 and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group on Oct. 3. (This is the
side the Obama Administration is aiding. Despite the demands to "do
something" from do-gooders and leftie journalist, there are no "good
guys" in Syria .
The side that wills will turn their attention to killing Jews, Christians and
other kuffer. ~Bob.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9591814/Patients-starve-and-die-of-thirst-on-hospital-wards.html
Excerpt: Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today. [Those people who work for
CNN Exposed – Emmy
Winning Former CNN Journalist, Amber Lyon, Blows The Whistle…. Simultaneously
Answers One of my questions….
Excerpt: CNN never aired the Nick Robertson report in Egypt because
it completely contradicted President Obama and Hillary
Clinton’s assertions. In short, the Robertson report, if aired,
would have proved Obama and Clinton were lying.
Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises
Excerpt: On the morning of the primary here in August, the
local elections board met to decide which absentee ballots to count. It was not
an easy job. ... "This 'r' is not like that 'r,' " Judge Augustus
D. Aikens Jr. said, suggesting that a ballot should
be rejected. Ion Sancho, the elections supervisor here, disagreed. (I found this article really interesting. It seems
nothing about voting is simple or
foolproof. --Del.
Worth Reading
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444813104578016243142147194.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_8
Excerpt: No one in the 20th century was responsible for more
deaths that Mao Zedong (1893-1976), chairman of the Chinese Communist Party;
not Lenin, Stalin or even Hitler. The sheer size of China meant that Mao's vicious,
carefully premeditated policies led to more death, starvation, suffering and
bloodshed than the work of anyone else in history's most cataclysmic
century. (It seems that there are always people who will examine events
through colored glasses of one sort or another. The new book takes a view of
Mao as a "complicated man" whose basic motivations were all for the
good of China .
That may well be true, in the same sense that Hitler wanted what was good for Germany , and Napoleon wanted what was good for France . But we
can and should judge a person by what they accomplish deliberately more than by
their supposed intent. And Mao was responsible for the deaths of hundreds
of millions over the time of his reign. While once in full power, he used the
cult of personality and led a privileged life with lots of special
benefits until the day of his death. Ted Bundy and all the other serial killers
could be called "complicated" as well. But realistically, to
paraphrase Forest Gump, "Evil is as Evil Does". --Del. The left always believes good
intentions exonerates evil outcomes. ~Bob.)
93 Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound Woman Gets Photo ID In One Day
After Losing Initial PA Voter ID Lawsuit. By Pete Winn
Excerpt: “Applewhite is 93-years-old, does not drive, is
confined to a wheelchair, lacks many personal identification documents, and yet
she managed to get herself -- with no assistance from the ACLU -- to her local
PennDot office, where she was issued an ID,” Danhof explained. (I thought this
was really interesting. After the months of screaming about it, it turns out
that getting a voter ID was not exactly difficult or lengthy. I wonder if that
information will be considered important in the debate. Actually, I thought the
end result in this case was kind of funny. --Del )
But his intentions were good! ~Bob. Excerpt: Below is a list
of failed energy companies backed by President Barack Obama and
funded with tax dollars. President Obama has gone to great lengths to support
policies to advance so-called green energy technologies but so far has met with
utter failure. The President plans to double down on these unproven, expensive
failed technologies if he gets a second term.
Obama’s Spiking the
Football Over 7.8% Unemployment? By John Daly
Excerpt: In a reality-based world, the only political
advantage that number should give President Obama is the extra money the Romney
campaign will now have to put into re-dubbing campaign commercials that pointed
out how long the unemployment rate has been over 8%. But in the world of Obama,
it’s celebration time for a job well done! A testament to the success of
his economic policies!
Latest New Yorker Cover Zings Obama With Romney
Debating…An Empty Chair
Excerpt: The U.S. Senate race in Ohio is now a tie. The latest Rasmussen
Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters finds incumbent Democrat Sherrod
Brown and his Republican challenger Josh Mandel each earning 46% support. Two
percent (2%) like another candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.
Excerpt: Inflation has been picking up since the recession
ended in 2009. The problem with the CPI increasing year over year with no rise
in household incomes is that the standard of living for most Americans erodes
every year that incomes
do not keep up. Household incomes are back to levels last seen in the
mid-1990s while the cost of necessities has gone up. (Believe it or not,
there are really a LOT of people who don't
want to know how the corporatocracy is impoverishing them, even though they can
see with their own eyes that gas prices have doubled in the last 4 years. It is
obvious from some responses that they think the government--and the Federal
Reserve (which many think is a government agency)--is full of people who have their
interests at heart and are doing their level best to improve the economy and
create jobs. And they vote. The picture is more transparent for those who keep
abreast of economic trends in both Europe and the US and can see the exact same
patterns appearing in both regions yet being portrayed as
mere coincidence in the media. But the doubting Thomases make the job of
the power elites so much easier. Their reward for their loyalty? More poverty.
--Don Hank)
Excerpt: When I come across a Facebook or Twitter posting
that relates to our current national problems the first question I ask myself
is "did they vote?". When I monitor the comments from a news
website's news article, the first thing I think is "all boots, no
horse"; that is "they love to shoot off their mouth but won't get off
their ass and go exercise their citizen responsibility which is voting. Instead,
these loudmouths sit on their broad asses and compose a keyboard symphony of
raps against all that they deplore. They have all the answers and are not shy
about spouting off about them. Yet, voting is just too much to ask of them.
Islamic radical shot
dead by anti-terrorism police in France
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213757/Islamic-radical-shot-dead-anti-terrorism-police-France-opening-offices-dawn-raid.html#ixzz28XYY7iHa
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213757/Islamic-radical-shot-dead-anti-terrorism-police-France-opening-offices-dawn-raid.html#ixzz28XYY7iHa
Excerpt: The suspect, meanwhile, was hit by a number of
bullets and died at the scene, despite being treated by medics for his wounds. The
source said the man's veiled wife and child were in the Strasbourg house, and that the woman was one
of those arrested for questioning.
Excerpt: The Obama administration has refused for the first
time to declare that Pakistan
is making progress toward ending alleged military support for Islamic militant
groups or preventing al Qaida, the Afghan Taliban or other extremists from
staging attacks in Afghanistan .
Even so, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has quietly informed Congress that
she’s waived the legal restrictions that would have blocked some $2 billion in U.S. economic and military aid to Pakistan .
Sharia in action in Arizona
Excerpt: Note the unconscionable and inexplicable bias of
the Fox headline and lede paragraph: all three family members pled guilty, yet
the story still says that this woman "claims" that she was beaten by
her family. And the victim is sorry. This is all she knows.
Revolt of the Spooks:
Intelligence officials angered by Obama administration cover up of intelligence
on Iranian, al Qaeda surge in Egypt and Libya
Excerpt: Weeks before the presidential election,
President Barack Obama’s administration faces mounting opposition from within
the ranks of U.S. intelligence
agencies over what career officers say is a “cover up” of intelligence
information about terrorism in North Africa .
The 2012 Presidential
Debates >> Did Anyone Get The Number Of That Bus?
Excerpt: In June 2008, while at a fundraiser in Philadelphia (the City of Brotherly Love ), Senator Barack Obama had
this to say about the Republican Party. “If they bring a knife to the fight, we
bring a gun. Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl.
I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
Worth Sharing: Distracted |
President Obama on Jobs
Of Hooters, Zombies and Senators. By Gail Collins
Excerpt: Today, let’s take a look at debates that do not
involve Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. You can thank me later. I am talking
about the races for the United States Senate, people. Attention must be paid!
And, as a reward, we can also discuss a new campaign ad featuring zombies.
http://www.soopermexican.com/2012/10/05/southern-california-gas-jumps-record-19-2-cents-overnight-pumps-shutting-down/
Excerpt: “We’re going to start shutting pumps Friday,” Sam Krikorian, owner of Quality Auto Repair in
Vote Delingpole for Corby!
James Delingpole
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100183991/how-dave-can-still-lead-the-greenest-government-ever-and-save-his-party-the-economy-and-rural-britain/
Excerpt: Anyway, one thing I'm very much noticing on the campaign trail is the intensity of local feeling on the wind farm horror. When you live in a city – as I did till recently – you simply have no idea how much heartbreak and anxiety and fear the wind farm scam is generating across rural Britain. Country people feel helpless and appalled and betrayed.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100183991/how-dave-can-still-lead-the-greenest-government-ever-and-save-his-party-the-economy-and-rural-britain/
Excerpt: Anyway, one thing I'm very much noticing on the campaign trail is the intensity of local feeling on the wind farm horror. When you live in a city – as I did till recently – you simply have no idea how much heartbreak and anxiety and fear the wind farm scam is generating across rural Britain. Country people feel helpless and appalled and betrayed.
BOOM!! – New Romney
Ad from Black Americans – “We Need Mitt Romney”
Obama's edge narrows
in latest polling
Excerpt: New polling shows Mitt Romney continuing to gain
ground on President Obama following the first presidential debate Wednesday.
The latest Gallup
daily tracking poll now puts Romney just three points behind the incumbent,
after being down five in the prior day's results.
CBO reports deficit
was $1.1 trillion in 2012
Excerpt: The government's fiscal 2012 has now come to a close
and the score is in. The budget deficit for 2012 was $1.1 trillion, the fourth
year of trillion-dollar deficits under President Obama.
Rich businessmen
pulling out of France
Excerpt: A flood of top-end properties are hitting the
market as businessmen seek to leave France before stiff tax hikes hit,
real estate agents and financial advisors say. "It's nearly a general
panic. Some 400 to 500 residences worth more than one million euros ($1.3
million) have come onto the Paris
market," said managers at Daniel Feau, a real-estate broker that
specialises in high-end property.
Military Times Poll:
Romney bests Obama, 2-1
Excerpt: The professional core of the U.S. military
overwhelmingly favors Mitt Romney over President Obama in the upcoming election
— but not because of any particular military issues, according to a new poll of
more than 3,100 active and reserve troops.
Obama family 'costs
taxpayers $1.4BILLION per year' (that's 20 times more expensive than British
Royal Family)
Brits have a laugh on us. ~Bob. Excerpt: Politicians looking
for savings to deal with the national debt crisis should perhaps start by
abolishing the President. Barack Obama and his family cost the taxpayer
$1.4billion per year, according to a recently published book. By contrast, the
British Royal Family costs less than $60million each year.
$5 Trillion
Romney ad to share.
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