Old Jarhead's Political
SitRep for November 26, 2012
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Most of the royalties from these books go to charity. So
it's a two-fer. ~Bob
Worth
Excerpt: Whether President Obama knows it or
not, and he surely does, the president plays an enormous role in setting the
tone, the spirit, of our country. It just so happens that now we're officially
into the Christmas season, but the spirit, reflected in heathenish behavior,
headlining the news is in dire need of civility.
Worth Sharing: Corporal Robert D. Corriveau - Help Solve His Murder. By
Andy Weddington
Excerpt: The body found on the Pike had no
identification but there was a tattoo on each arm. A nondescript bird in flight
appeared on his left arm but on his right arm there was the Marine Corps
Bulldog wearing a WWI helmet with the letters USMC. As one of the
Investigators, Corporal Tom Waters, a former Marine, said “You don’t have a
tattoo like that unless you have been in the Marine Corps.” There were other
clues on the body that might have helped, a healed bullet wound on his upper
arm and a scar from a partially amputated finger.
Mubarak was never this kind of tyrant. YET Obama told him to
step down.
Obama's excuse was a mass demonstration in Tahrir Square ,
suggesting that the people did not support Mubarak. Yet now the same kind of
mass demo is happening in Tahrir
Square against Morsi, and...has anyone heard
of Obama insisting that Morsi has to step down? Why not, Barack? Come
on, we need answers. Surely you don't favor Islamists (Morsi) over secular
leaders (Mubarak) who respect the rights of minorities and women. Do you...? --Don
Hank
Egyptians stage
anti-Morsi 'rally of anger and warning' in Cairo
Excerpt: Just two days after Egyptian President Mohamed
Morsi worked with the Obama administration to help bring about a ceasefire
between Israel defense forces and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza , thousands of protestors flooded Cairo's Tahrir Square on
Friday to voice their opposition to the new constitutional declaration issued
by Morsi on Thursday. (Ok, folks. Pay attention. The last time this kind of
demo happened, and right there on Tahrir
Square , Obama immediately told Mubarak he had
to step down. The mass demonstration was his excuse. Now here it is again, same
scenario but a new face. Morsi is acting the way they claimed Mubarak was
acting. Where is the administration's demand to step down? Obama is silent
as the sphinx and will remain so. That's because there is one major
difference between Mubarak and Morsi. Mubarak was an important stabilizing
factor -- a facilitator and link between Israel
and the Middle East . He was the glue that held
things together, because he was a secularist and a pragmatist, was
pro-west and didn't hate Jews. Morsi hates Jews, is a destabilizing factor and
is not pro-West. His regime is marked by severe persecution of Christians as
well. That automatically aligns Morsi with Obama. Yes, true, Obama repaid
the Jews for their votes by making a half-hearted statement that they had the
right to defend themselves. But this was immediately followed by a
Western-brokered cease fire that will only serve to give Hamas time to regroup
and was based on Western biased propaganda that it was all Israel's fault for
fighting back (just as it is Assad's fault for defending his government against
terrorists). Obama's intervention in the Arab Spring and in Libya (Ghadaffi was also a pro-west secularist
and a stabilizing force) and his desire to oust the pro-Christian Assad in Syria shows
whose side he is on. Just watch what he doesn't do in response to this repeat of the Arab Spring that
he so warmly embraced when a pro-west, pro-Christian,
pro-Jew leader was in the hot seat. I hope and pray that I am wrong. --Don
Hank)
Excerpt: Not that the state’s legislators have anything
constructive to offer. California ’s
Democratic leaders are not only unwilling to rein in the costs of benefits for
their patrons, the public-sector unions, but they have been erecting roadblocks
to those localities that want to fix the problem on their own. Yet all the
political blockades in the world cannot fix the basic problem of insolvency.(
The list of CA cities going bankrupt or already bankrupt is growing so fast the
commentators can't keep them straight. So far I count: Vallejo . Stockton . Mammoth Lakes San Bernardino .
Compton . Fresno . Stand by for
more. They are coming in increasingly rapid succession (roughly exponential
growth). If you plotted them on a curve, you could easily predict the end of California and the
approximate year of its demise. Death by democracy. And CA is only the first.
--Don Hank. If you have money in any CA bonds, you might do better with Czarist
or Confederate War bonds. ~Bob.)
Do Muslims fear
threat of annihilation by Jews?
Many Western intellectuals think that the Muslim
attacks on Jews are due to a genuine fear of annihilation by Jews. I
occasionally receive emails from European friends reminding me of this. This is
something to think about. After all, it is possible that Muslims, whose
population amounts to 1.57 billion worldwide at a growth rate
of 1.5%/year(and who will make up 1/4 of the world population in 20
years), feel threatened with annihilation by Jews, who number 13.3
million and whose world population is growing at the rate
of 0.65%/year, feel threatened by the people whose nation they constantly
bombard and attack with car bombs and suicide bombs and whom their religious canon
instructs them to destroy. At this rate, Muslims could go extinct any day now.
They must be protected. --Don Hank
Jewish growth rate
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-population-grows-by-88000-over-past-year/
Muslim growth rate
http://dawn.com/2011/01/27/muslim-population-growth-outpaces-non-muslims-study/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-population-grows-by-88000-over-past-year/
Muslim growth rate
http://dawn.com/2011/01/27/muslim-population-growth-outpaces-non-muslims-study/
Report: Egypt Constitutional Court
According to reports from Egypt , the Constitutional Court is seeking to
impeach new Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi after Morsi seized
quasi-dictatorial power, sparking protests around the country. Morsi waited for
the Obama administration’s praise over the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to make the
move. Local media reports a courts spokesperson stating, “the judges are
prepared to exercise the right to shift the head of state after he flouted the
laws and the constitution.” (Egyptians have more chutzpah than US. --Barb)
Excerpt: Winston Churchill once quipped you can “trust the
American people to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.”
His observation touches on a recurring theme in United States history: major
political change is often preceded by a decade long learning curve. This
pattern can be seen from the Founding era up to the election of 2012.
The
Misogynist President. By Maureen Coover Scott
Excerpt: Has anyone else noticed how miserably demeaning
Obama really treats women? First he makes Hillary
stand up to take the heat about Benghazi .
Then he feeds Susan Rice full of lies and sends her out to face the
media…five times one Sunday morning on the talk shows. It was very
apparent that he simply used two women to cover for him, and he hid behind
their skirts until the election was over.
South Yorkshire
Police and Rotherham Council Are Complicit in
Child-Rape. By Paul Weston
Excerpt: The Times has a three
page spread today (Sep 24, 2012) about the thousands of predominately Pakistani
Muslim gang rapes of white English girls in the Rotherham
area. (This is how pandering to minorities turns the law on its head. Here is
an object lesson in why to avoid relativism. No, all religions are NOT equal.
Some condone rape, and once enough people of this religion reach a certain
percentage of the population, there is no turning back. Ask a European. --Don
Hank)
The growth of Sharia
in Antwerp.
This is a short, but chilling 5.39 min video for
CNN News on the rapid growth of Sharia in Antwerp , Belgium UK . Remember
that Brussels
is the seat of the EU government and this untenable situation is directly due
to their intervention. This is why nations who want sovereignty or wish to
preserve what is left of European culture MUST leave the EU (without asking
permission!). Otherwise, this is what awaits them. -Don Hank
Putting Some Facts in
the Tax-the-Rich Debate. By David Wessel
Excerpt: To pepper the arguments with a few facts, turn to
the very latest compendium of income-tax data, conveniently
published this week by the Internal Revenue Service in its Statistics of Income
Bulletin, Fall 2012 issue. These aren’t estimates from economic models: They’re
the full, final tally. FACT: Only about 3% of tax returns show income of
more than $200,000. (To be precise, federal income tax. Of course, the states
vary widely in what they make their citizens pay in income tax, and that
can change the total taxes paid by people, not to mention the sales taxes,
gas taxes, liquor taxes, tobacco taxes, etc, that people pay. Which affect the
lower level income people a lot more than they do the wealthy. Still, the
story below is very educational, and a major point is that rich people tend to
pay less in percentage total income tax because a lot of their income is from
capital gains and dividends, which are taxed less in order to encourage people
to invest in the system, and besides, the income is now coming off invested
money on which the taxes have already been paid. So as much as emotionally we
want really rich people to pay more in taxes, that they derive income from
investments and get taxed less thereon is still a positive thing for the
society overall. Could we tax high income people more? Probably, but you really
don't want to make the fiscal environment so discouraging that they move out to
Monaco or some island and take their money with them. Working out what is not
really unfair and is tolerable by the wealthy, and actually brings in more
income would take some careful thought and reasoning. And not an emotional
"let's get the rich bastards" drive. --Del )
Excerpt: Whether or not Republicans have any chance of
capturing more than a tiny fraction of the Latino vote, Krauthammer (and the
straw-grasping Republicans who echoed him) shouldn’t take Latinos’
conservatism, including their views on abortion, for granted.
Election Spurred a
Move to Codify U.S.
Excerpt: Facing the possibility
that President Obama might not win a second
term, his administration accelerated work in the weeks before the election to
develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones, so that a new
president would inherit clear standards and procedures, according to two
administration officials. (I thought the WH policy was, "Kill them
all, let Allah sort them out." ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Didn't get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: Boko Haram, the
Nigerian Islamist terror group that has been linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb and Shabaab, killed 11 people in an attack today on a church at a
military base in Kaduna .
The Nigerian terror group has carried out 19 suicide attacks so far this year;
many have targeted churches and mosques.
How Mexican Drug
Cartels Operate In America
Excerpt: “We pretend that the cartels don’t have an
infrastructure in the U.S. ,”
Fulton Armstrong, and ex-CIA officer, told The Washington Post. “But you
don’t do a $20 billion a year business . . . with ad-hoc, part-time volunteers.
You use an established infrastructure to support the markets. How come we’re
not attacking that infrastructure?”
“Islam is like
Nazism,” say increasingly popular Sweden
Excerpt: Keep an eye on the Sweden Democrats, they are
gaining strength from a populace fed up with uncontrolled Muslim immigration
and the resulting crime, rape and welfare overload that always accompanies it.
Now Obama Voters Will Suffer The Consequences Of Their
Decisions. By Alan Bates, MD
One major tenet of parenting is to let children suffer the
consequences of their actions as long as they are not endangering themselves
(or anyone else). Experience is by far the best teacher.
As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does
the potential for bias
Excerpt: Arguably the most prestigious medical journal in the
world, the New England Journal of Medicine regularly features articles over
which pharmaceutical companies and their employees can exert significant
influence. Over a year-long
period ending in August, NEJM published 73 articles on original studies of new
drugs, encompassing drugs approved by the FDA since 2000 and experimental
drugs, according to a review by The Washington Post. Of those articles, 60 were funded by a
pharmaceutical company, 50 were co-written by drug company employees and 37 had
a lead author, typically an academic, who had previously accepted outside
compensation from the sponsoring drug company in the form of consultant pay,
grants or speaker fees. (This 5-page article is worth reading because it
focuses on the potential for abuse in today’s crony-dominated marketplace. If
medical journals become just another method of advertising for the major
researchers, where will doctors be able to turn for real, unbiased information?
--Ron P.)
Excerpt: The longest running news team in Bangor , Maine Bar Harbor is
underwater, then we can do global warming stories," he wrote in an email obtained by The New York Times.
"Until then, no more." (It seems there ARE newscasters with integrity. Does this
qualify as “going Galt?” I suspect so. --Ron
P.)
Exclusive: Food Stamp Recipients Outnumber Populations of
24 States Combined
Excerpt:
In November,
the U.S.
Department of Agriculture reported that a record 47,102,780 individuals receive food stamps. According to US. Census Bureau data,
that figure exceeds the combined populations of: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut,
Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine,
Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West
Virginia, and Wyoming. (Free stuff? What free stuff? They “earned” the right to
food stamps by existing here. Just like voter fraud, this problem only exists
in the mind of the beholder. Baaad Conservative! No biscuit for you. --Ron P.)
War Is the Answer. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Since the League of Nations folded, the warring
peoples of the world have added the atom bomb, the suicide bomber, the jet
plane, the remotely guided missile, the rape squad, the IED, the child soldier
and the stealth fighter to their arsenals. And the humanitarians have murdered
a few billion trees printing out more useless treaties, conventions and
condemnations; more dead trees than accounted for by every piece of human
literature written until the 19th Century. There is no moral technology to
prevent war. Or rather war is the moral technology, that when properly applied,
ensures peace.
Excerpt: What makes the head of a crime family happier than
a witch in a broom factory? Finding out that he will be keeping his job another
4 years and knowing that virtually no one can touch him. His chief enforcer is also happy as he is keeping his job, at
least for another four years.
Ahmadinejad:
"Zionists have reached the dead point and have no other alternative but
officially recognizing and bowing to the absolute right of the Palestinian
nation"
Excerpt: The leading spokesman for genocide of the Jews in
the world today is thrilled with the outcome of the recent conflict. Thanks
once again are due to Barack Obama.
Excerpt: Brunel University in Uxbridge, west London , has been criticised for allowing a
cleric who supports the killing of gay people to attend a student event.
Activists slam
marriage of 12-year-old in Malaysia
Excerpt: Malaysian activists on Friday slammed the wedding
of a 12-year-old to her 19-year-old boyfriend, renewing their calls for the
government to outlaw child marriages.
With second term
assured, Obama aides eye jobs as lobbyists. By Kevin Bogardus
Excerpt: With President Obama's reelection a done deal,
headhunters are expecting worn-out administration aides to look for new jobs in
the influence industry.
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