Old Jarhead's Political
SitRep for November 28, 2012
Some very interesting articles and links today. Don't skip
it. ~Bob
Thanksgiving
in Wisconsin
Pictures
from our home to yours. ~Bob
Worth Helping at the Holidays: The Vietnam
A very small charity worth supporting. It helps former ARVN
troops, who we abandoned to their fate in 1975, in violation of our treaty
obligations. Many of them are badly crippled, and heavily discriminated against
by the Communist government (those that weren’t murdered outright). Regular
readers will recognize Del ,
one of the founders of VHF, as a regular contributor to this blog. ~Bob.
Old Poem, but still true
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The president is responsible for the
safety of Americans wherever they may be. He failed. Period. His public
statements, hardly interesting, are inadequate and sloppy fiction. Atop the
payroll of the American citizenry, our employee, he must answer questions,
under oath, as to where he was and what he did or did not do when America was under siege in Benghazi
Got him? High
Point
This was the murder that Col. Weddington appealed for help
on in the blog. ~Bob. Victor Razumov Jr., 18, of Wantage, was formally charged
with the murder of Virginia "Suzy"
Sommer, 73, of Lake
Neepaulin
Worth Reading : Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S.
Excerpt:
The actual liabilities of the federal government—including Social Security,
Medicare, and federal employees' future retirement benefits—already exceed
$86.8 trillion, or 550% of GDP. For the year ending Dec. 31, 2011, the annual
accrued expense of Medicare and Social Security was $7 trillion. Nothing like
that figure is used in calculating the deficit. In reality, the reported budget
deficit is less than one-fifth of the more accurate figure. (Some people think
that with Medicaid, public employee pension funds for the feds and states and,
now, ObamaCare, we could be looking at $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
See the next two articles. We’d have to sell the planet to pay that off. ~Bob.)
Niall
Ferguson: Us Unfunded Liabilities Top $238 Trillion!!
Excerpt:
The most recent estimate for the difference between the net present value of
federal government liabilities and the net present value of future federal
revenues is $200 trillion, nearly thirteen times the debt as stated by the U.S.
Treasury. (This is why I wasn’t as crushed as many by Romney’s loss. He offered
only the slimmest of hopes anyway. Now hope is fled and we can prepare for the
collapse as best we can. ~Bob.)
Oh,
About Those Unfunded Liabilities. By Karl Denninger
Excerpt:
This is why — it is simply impossible for the promises made through
Medicare to be kept. That is not conjecture, it is not able to be fixed with
taxation, it is not a matter of opinion. It is mathematical fact. You’re not
going to get Medicare, unless (1) you’re getting it now and (2) you’re
reasonably close to death. (Lucky me, I fit both one and two, but tough
for you. ~Bob.)
Please,
no Medicare-themed nude protests.
Actor Jamie Foxx At
Soul Train Music Awards: ‘Give An Honor To…Our Lord & Savior Barack Obama
Excerpt: Actor Jamie Foxx recently had
some extremely favorable words for President Barack Obama —
words that are typically reserved for church sermons and personal prayers. The
Oscar winner made his curious statements about the nation’s commander-in-chief
at the Soul Train Music Awards, which aired on Sunday. During an on-stage
appearance, he referred to Obama as “our lord and savior.”
Thomas Ricks Accuses
Fox News Of 'Operating As A Wing Of The Republican Party' (VIDEO)
Excerpt: A Fox News interview ended rather abruptly on
Monday after a guest took not one but two jabs at the network hosting him (see
update below). (Don't watch any of the cable news much, as I can't stand the
talking heads shouting at each other. But I supposed this is as opposed to the
unbiased MCNBC, which doesn't slant the news--it edits it to fit it's viewers
tastes. ~Bob.)
Obama faces huge
challenge in setting up health insurance exchanges
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/269137-obama-faces-huge-challenge-in-setting-up-health-exchanges
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/269137-obama-faces-huge-challenge-in-setting-up-health-exchanges
Excerpt: The Obama administration faces major logistical and
financial challenges in creating health insurance exchanges for states that
have declined to set up their own systems. ... It's a situation no one
anticipated when the Affordable Care Act was written.
Video: Following Gaza 's Ceasefire, Cleveland
Rally Calls For the Destruction of Israel
Excerpt: Anti-Israel protests and demonstrations were held
throughout the United States
following the start of the Israel-Gaza conflict earlier this month. On Wednesday
November 21st Al-Awda The Palestine Right to Return Coalition's Cleveland,
OH chapter organized a rally in downtown Cleveland calling for the destruction
of Israel.
Saudi man marries
principal, teacher and student all from same school. By Mohammad Al-Kadoomi
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20121122143668
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20121122143668
Excerpt: A Saudi man in his 50s raised eyebrows after it was
revealed that he had married a school principal, teacher and schoolgirl, all
from the same school. He is also married to an educational supervisor at
another school. It is believed the principal’s relationships with the teacher
and student have not been compromised in any way, despite being married to the
same man.
Yes, politicians buy
votes. By Brian Garst
Excerpt: But many of Romney’s critics seem to think that
it’s somehow uncouth to suggest that President Obama would buy votes. In fact,
Obama does buy votes — all politicians do.
Politicians are in the business of winning elections.
15-year-old Bedouin girl stabbed to death in suspected honor killing: Victim was allegedly dating a boy against the wishes of her family, and refused to end their relations
Excerpt: A 15-year-old girl was apparently stabbed to death
on Monday in a suspected honor killing in the Bedouin town of Tel Sheva . The victim’s 24-year-old brother
called the police to confess to killing her.
Chinese terra cotta
warriors had real, and very carefully made, weapons
Excerpt: The 7,000 soldiers buried
with Qin Shi Huang in
210 B.C. were made of clay. But the bronze weapons the terra cotta army carried
into the enormous tomb complex near
Xi’an in western China were the real things: tens of thousands
of swords, axes, spears, lances and crossbows, all as capable of
spilling blood as anything Qin’s real army wielded when they triumphed, ending
centuries of war and uniting China under a single rule for the first time.
Efforts to Curb
Social Spending Face Resistance
Excerpt: President Obama’s re-election and
Democratic gains in Congress were supposed to make it easier for the party to
strike a deal with Republicans to resolve the year-end fiscal crisis by
providing new leverage. But they could also make it harder as empowered
Democrats, including some elected on liberal platforms, resist significant
changes in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. (Why get
people upset changing SS and Medicare when they will go away anyway in the
coming fiscal collapse? Just kick the can past my life expectancy, please. Then
screw the country. ~Bob.)
Union members fly to Washington
Excerpt: Hundreds of union members will be on Capitol Hill
this week to lobby lawmakers to leave entitlements alone and let tax cuts for
the wealthy expire. (I like the idea of Republicans voting "present"
on Tax Increases. Say, "We oppose them, but the people elected Obama and
they deserve to get the economy this will create. If it really trashes jobs, 2014
should be a GOP year. ~Bob.)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Perhaps we should no longer be surprised by the arrogance of Wall Street executives.
Still, the level of hubris and bullying displayed by Jon Corzine during
his 19-month tenure as chairman and chief executive officer of MF Global Holdings
Ltd. (MFGLQ) -- as described in a recent congressional report
about the company’s 2011 collapse -- stands out for sheer offensiveness. (The
article shows how a massive ego, blatant incompetence, and total lack of ethics
let Corzine destroy a company and cause enormous losses to investors, as
well as hundreds of jobs, while raking in tons of money personally. Congress
brought all this to light, but could not bring to bear any sort of penalty for
the rotten SOB who basically got away with it. His only penalty was embarrassment
in public, and he won't be working in Wall Street ever again, but with his
multimillions he can probably just relax and live the good life from now on.
This is an horrendous miscarriage of justice, and just confirms that upper
management can get away with pretty much anything. That is NOT really a good
message for Congress to send. I would really have expected the Obama
Administration and Dept of Justice to find some way to bring Corzine up on
charges. Anyone doing that much damage to so many people through their own
arrogance and practice of deception should be liable for something. --Del. He was Obama's wall
street guy, big fund-raiser for the Dems. Of course he'll walk. ~Bob.)
Typical Chicago
Excerpt: Alex "Cowboy" Campbell beat, raped and terrorized the young
women he forced into prostitution or to work in his massage parlors, but it was
the branding that gave a federal judge sentencing him Monday the most pause.
... For most of the nearly 51/2-hour hearing, the woman, identified only as
Nicole, sat stoically as Campbell declared he had been racially targeted for
prosecution as a black man and dismissed her testimony as lies, all the while
calling her "Trinity," a name she testified he gave her when he brought
her into what he called his "family." (What the first thing a black
thug does when caught? Play the race card. Maybe Eric Holder will rescue one of
"his people." ~Bob.)
Excerpt: One problem with the “the problem with the GOP is
this wing or faction” analysis is that every brand of Republican lost a
winnable race Tuesday. Tea Party enthusiasts have to come to grips with Richard
Mourdock losing a winnable Senate race in Indiana and Mia Love losing a
winnable House race in Utah .
(The real problem is that the loot-the-future voters now outnumber us, and will
until after the collapse. ~Bob.)
Are we living in the
Hunger Games? By Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Excerpt: We don't live in The
Hunger Games yet, but I'm not the first to notice that Washington , D.C. Washington
area, where housing prices are going up, fancy restaurants advertise $92 Wagyu steaks, and the
Tyson's Corner mall outshines -- as I can attest from firsthand experience --
even Beverly Hills '
famed Rodeo Drive .
Q for Those in
Favor of "Balanced Approach" of Spending Cuts and Tax Hikes: How Many
Times Has Real Spending Declined Since 1980? By Nick Gillespie
Excerpt: Because lord knows that no other countries have
ever addressed debt-to-GDP issues by actually cutting spending in the here and now. Except maybe for, well, the United States
itself after World War II and the New Deal, and Canada in the long-ago 1990s.
And some other places, all of which not only reduced expenditures but
saw powerful economic growth as a result.
Excerpt: Let’s talk taxes. In a New York
Times op-ed yesterday, famed investor and Berkshire
Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett once again argued that the wealthy should be taxed more. This isn’t the first time Buffett has made the case for higher
taxes, and it’s not the first time he’s been wrong. Here are four reasons he is
wrong to push for tax hikes. (So why don't Buffet's companies pay all their
taxes now? Why doesn't he pay extra to set an example? ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Anyone who has followed the decades-long
controversies over the role of genes in IQ scores will recognize the names of
the two leading advocates of opposite conclusions on that subject-- Professor
Arthur R. Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley and Professor James R. Flynn,
an American expatriate at the University
of Otago in New Zealand . What is so unusual in
the academic world of today is that Professor Flynn's latest book, "Are We
Getting Smarter?" is dedicated to Arthur Jensen, whose integrity he
praises, even as he opposes his conclusions. That is what scholarship and
science are supposed to be like, but so seldom are.
Digesting the Twinkies' Lessons. By George Will
Excerpt: Anyway, why GM and not Hostess? The Troubled Asset
Relief Program, aka TARP, was passed to rescue financial institutions. But Washington reasoned:
"What's legality among cronies?" So soon TARP was succoring GM, which
was not a financial institution. It was not even a car company. It was a health
care provider unsuccessfully trying to sell cars fast enough to generate enough
revenue to pay health benefits for its employees and approximately twice as
many retirees. (One reason was that Hostess failed after the election, when
Obama no longer has to care about union jobs. ~Bob.)
Why is my 13-year-old
daughter eligible for Social Security?
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/26/why-is-my-13-year-old-daughter-eligible-for-social-security/#ixzz2DRMLMYl5
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/26/why-is-my-13-year-old-daughter-eligible-for-social-security/#ixzz2DRMLMYl5
Excerpt: Sooner or later Congress has to do something about
our unsustainable Social Security system. ... The nice man at Social Security
said he would need to schedule an interview for me with someone in the local
office to confirm the eligibility of my dependent children. Not knowing that my
decision to have children at an advanced age would qualify them for Social
Security benefits when I retired, I was taken aback. (just as the Senate
has found that it is easier to NOT pass a budget for over three years, the
Congress and Obama will find it easier to do nothing, and hope the collapse can
be postponed past their watch. Nothing will be done until the riots start.
~Bob.)
Debt Limit - A Guide
To American Federal Debt Made Easy.
Been around, but still funny. ~Bob
Arafat to be exhumed
on Tuesday over poisoning claim
Excerpt: The body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is to
be exhumed on Tuesday, Palestinian officials say. His body is to undergo tests
to find out whether his death in Paris
in 2004 was caused by poisoning. (They won't dig up his tens of thousands of
victims. We know how and why they died, but the world doesn't care. ~Bob.)
Euro zone, IMF secure
deal on cutting Greek debt
Excerpt: After 12 hours of talks at their third meeting in
as many weeks, Greece 's
international lenders agreed on a package of measures to reduce Greek debt by
40 billion euros, cutting it to 124 percent of gross domestic product by 2020.
(I wonder if they would reduce the $94k I owe on my condo? Why not? ~Bob.)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Years of economic growth have been the result of
economic freedom. However, coercive government policies threaten to limit
economic freedom, thereby increasing the power of political elites and hurting
the poor and working classes...
Venezuelan Judge Who
Angered Chávez Says She Was Raped While in Prison. By María Eugenia
Díaz and William Neuman
Excerpt: An arrested judge at the center of one of Venezuela ’s most prominent human rights cases
was raped while in prison and then had an abortion behind bars after becoming
pregnant, according to the judge’s lawyer and a book published last week in Caracas that has stirred
new controversy around the case. (Lesson: Don't piss off an Obama buddy like
Chavez. ~Bob.)
Tax Hikes over $250K:
End of the Upper Middle Class?
Excerpt: $250,000 is a lot of money – especially if you live
in, say Peoria , Illinois New York City , Los Angeles ,
San Francisco , Boston ,
Chicago or Dallas ,
you’re not rich – you’re simply what’s known as
“upper middle class.” It all comes down to cost of living, a metric that is not
considered when the Census Bureau of the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates
the mean earnings of working Americans. The cost of living in New York , for example, is 105.7 percent higher than
living in Peoria ,
according to Salary.com.
What If Iran
Excerpt: Israel
— as its friends and enemies never forget — is a “one-bomb country.” One
nuclear weapon is all it would take to wipe out a nation whose territory is
smaller than Djibouti, with a population not as large as that of Burundi —
fewer than 8 million people, 20 percent of them Arabs who are enjoying rights
denied to Arabs (not to mention non-Arab minorities) elsewhere in the Middle
East.
Excerpt: According to a story in the Bangor (ME) Daily News, the FBI's
National Instant Criminal Background Check System or NICS suffered intermittent
outages on Black Friday due to call volume. A number of Bangor-area
firearms dealers reported trouble with the system which caused them to lose
sales. While a number of their customers were local, a good proportion were from
the more rural areas of Maine
and made a special trip into the Bangor-Brewer area just to purchase a firearm.
GOP senators ‘more
disturbed’ after meeting with Rice on Benghazi
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/269549-rice-fails-to-convince-republican-senators-on-benghazi
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/269549-rice-fails-to-convince-republican-senators-on-benghazi
Excerpt: United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice failed Tuesday
to convince Republican senators that she's not to blame for proving misleading
information about the attack in Benghazi — raising new doubts about her
potential nomination to be secretary of State.
This
Much We Know: What Happened at Benghazi
Excerpt: Competing narratives of what happened at
Benghazi still flood the news, often providing more heat than light. But in all
the controversy, one obdurate truth cannot be denied: This administration, this
State Department, this president failed in their first duty, to protect
American lives. That is the starting point of this story and it could be the
end after all has been said. First our
envoys were killed; now it looks as if any hope of finding out just what
happened in Benghazi and why may be lost in all the political infighting. (The
author properly focuses on the real issues, not just the political spin. However,
I doubt “history” will treat Obama any less kindly than it does Bill Clinton,
far more kindly than it will George W. Bush, and it may not matter all that
much anyway. Unless we solve all sorts of problems, both internal and external,
in virtually no time at all, the USA—as we know it—may no longer exist. An old
Dutch proverb is “we grow too soon, old and too late, smart.” Ron P.)
http://www.burtprelutsky.com/2012/11/sharia-law-american-style.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burtprelutsky%2FSQlQ+%28BurtPrelutsky.com%29
It’s liberals who are always accusing conservatives of sticking their noses into places where they don’t belong. Being liberals, those places nearly always involve s-e-x. For instance, when left-wingers push for same-sex marriages, abortions on demand for teenagers and tax-funded birth control pills, and conservatives push back, the Left condemns the Right for meddling in personal matters, ignoring the fact that they’re the ones who insist on putting these things into their party’s platform. In the meantime, it’s liberals who insist on controlling everything from soda pop consumption to Christmas.
It’s liberals who are always accusing conservatives of sticking their noses into places where they don’t belong. Being liberals, those places nearly always involve s-e-x. For instance, when left-wingers push for same-sex marriages, abortions on demand for teenagers and tax-funded birth control pills, and conservatives push back, the Left condemns the Right for meddling in personal matters, ignoring the fact that they’re the ones who insist on putting these things into their party’s platform. In the meantime, it’s liberals who insist on controlling everything from soda pop consumption to Christmas.
Morgan Stanley’s Doom
Scenario: Major Recession in 2013 - US Business News - CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49898014
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49898014
The global economy is likely to be stuck in the “twilight
zone” of sluggish growth in 2013, Morgan Stanley has warned, but if
policymakers fail to act, it could get a lot worse. The bank’s economics team
forecasts a full-blown recession next year, under a pessimistic scenario, with
global gross domestic product (GDP) likely to plunge 2 percent. “More than
ever, the economic outlook hinges upon the actions taken or not taken by
governments and central banks,” Morgan Stanley said in a report.
A Tale of Two Armies
Excerpt: Comparing the IDF to Hamas: Sometimes pictures say
more than words:
Excerpt: Barack Obama broke the 50-year rule of a successful
northern liberal failing to win the presidency. It was not just that Barack
Obama was the first African-American president, but rather that he was young,
charismatic, half-African-American (on that characteristic, see Harry Reid and
Joe Biden circa 2008), with an exotic multicultural name and a chameleon
ability to be (and speak) all things to all people — a combination that
enthralled white liberals and minorities alike. A new black candidate with a
Jesse Jackson accent named Tyrone Wilson would not have won with the identical
platform and teleprompted eloquence. I don’t think even a Cory Booker or Deval
Patrick would have a chance.
Excerpt: America is no longer a confident, unified country —
it has been a house divided against itself since at least the incendiary
Sixties. But it would seem to this observer that the family squabble has
morphed into an all-out and irresolvable quarrel about means and ends and the
shape of America to come, leading eventually to fiscal collapse and possibly to
internecine strife as well. The year 2012 marks the point of no return, an
ironic confirmation of the Mayan calendar at the national level.
Pew: Inaccurate,
Costly, and Inefficient: Evidence That America’s Voter Registration System
Needs an Upgrade
Excerpt: Approximately 24 million—one of every eight—voter
registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are significantly
inaccurate. More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters. Approximately
2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.
Man featured in Aamir
Khan's show on honour killing murdered
Excerpt: Five months after a young couple appeared on Aamir
Khan's television show, Satyamev Jayate, and talked about the threat to their
lives because they had married without their parents' consent, the man was shot
dead near his village in western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday evening,
allegedly by his wife's brothers. (How come so many Muslims think Islam is a
Religion of Savages, rather than the Religion of Peace that Bush and Obama say
it is? ~Bob.)
IDF Kills Suspected
Gaza Terrorist after Stabbing
Excerpt: Soldiers killed a suspected Gaza terrorist early
Monday after he broke into a Jewish home and stabbed a girl before fleeing.
French Media Refuses To Cover Massive Protest Against Radical
Islam
Excerpt: A patriotic march for French values and culture, and
against radical Islam, was virtually blacked out by France’s politically correct media. …A
broad coalition of groups from across France came together because they feel
they’re losing their country to radical Islam, Sharia law, and a politically
correct establishment that encourages the spread of Islam. …“The French people — they want to defend their culture,
their history – they are called ‘fascists,’” one woman said.
White House Refuses To Condemn Morsi’s Power Grab
Excerpt: Jay Carney, asked about President Morsi’s power
grab: "Our interest in the development and transition to democracy in Egypt is one that reflects what the Egyptian
people demanded through their revolution, and continue to demand, which is a
government that reflects the will of the people. And we will continue to work
towards that goal, because it reflects what the Egyptian people want."
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: Black Friday lured one hundred fifty million
Americans to stores Friday. It's a ritual as regular as the Anglican Cycle of
Prayer. Thanksgiving is followed by Black Friday which is followed by Cyber
Shopping Monday, which is followed by Identity Theft Tuesday.
Debate on morality of
Obamacare
Excerpt:
What’s been happening in Egypt this week is as important as the
revolution that overthrew the old regime almost two years ago. A new dictator
has arrived, and while the Muslim Brotherhood’s overturning of democracy was
totally predictable, Western policymakers walked right into the trap. They even
helped build it.
Excerpt:
Here it comes again — another United Nations-sponsored grab to control the
Internet. Next month, Dec. 3-14, the UN’s International Telecommunications
Union (ITU) is holding a conference in Dubai,
at which UN member states will meet to update the ITU treaty arrangements for
international communications. The window will be open for everything from
proposals for UN-regulated and administered fees to, as The Hill reports, language from China and Iran, which, in
an effort to share with the world at large their own domestic practices, “could
lead to online censorship and government monitoring of Web traffic.”
Excerpt:
The increased interest is part of a ripple effect being felt across
the United States as a direct result of President Obama’s reelection,
amid concerns that an unaccountable Obama will use his second term to push for
the same sort of punitive gun control he sought
while involved in local politics in Chicago. Black Friday gun sales were
the largest ever recorded, so overwhelming that the FBI NICS
background check crashed twice. The issue was compounded immediately after the
election, when the administration moved to join a renewed debate about making the United States a part of a
United Nations Small Arms Treaty, which some shooting rights organizations view
as a prelude to gun confiscation.
Obama
Officials To Cash Out At Top Lobbying Firms
Excerpt:
President Barack Obama campaigned on shutting the revolving door that allows
administration officials to peddle their influence on K-Street, but top
administration officials are looking to land some of the highest-paying
lobbying jobs during Obama's second term. Some top-level officials had already
been in negotiations with lobbying firms before Obama even won reelection.
Excerpt:
Hungary, long considered one of post-communist Central Europe's biggest success stories, has been backsliding fast
since the rancidly populist Fidesz–Hungarian Civic Union party
headed by Viktor Orbán won a two-thirds parliamentary majority in
2010. Among the many illiberal developments has been an alarming resurgence in
government-sanctioned anti-Semitism.
The
Greenhouse Gas Blanket that Fails to Warm the World. By John O’Sullivan
& Douglas Cotton
Excerpt:
Amazingly, for over 50 years climate researchers overlooked the huge
significance of this basic fact when they modeled Earth simplistically by
averaging incoming solar radiation equally over both hemispheres. In the age
before supercomputers it was expedient to ignore the complexity that our 70% liquid
planet creates due to day/night heating and cooling of the water cycle.
Averaging across the entire globe this solar radiation energy input was a fudge
factor that gave rise to a rigid but flawed greenhouse gas radiation-obsessed
paradigm.
It's
hilarious that people who spent 8 years calling Colin Powell & Condi Rice
liars now say it's racist to accuse a diplomat of lying.
Let
Obama ruin liberal fiscal policy for good. Give him the damned tax hikes and
make him OWN the failure. Enough!
Belgian
discovers his wife used to be a man after 19 years
Excerpt:
A Belgian is seeking to have his marriage annulled after discovering that his
Indonesian wife of 19 years had been born a man. (And you think holiday dinners
are awkward at your house…~Bob.)
Who do
you respect more? A woman pole dancer working to feed her children or a
university law student begging for free government condoms?
Cedar
Falls cuts work hours due to ObamaCare
Excerpt:
Now, one city in eastern Iowa plans to do the same thing with workers who are
already part-time. City officials in Cedar Falls say they're being proactive by
cutting hours of part-time workers starting Dec. 1. That's because the
Affordable Care Act requires employers to provide health insurance to employees
who work at least 30 hours per week.
Obama
quietly signs bill shielding airlines from carbon fees in Europe
Excerpt:
President Obama has signed into law a bill that requires U.S. airlines be excluded from European carbon emissions fees. Environmentalists
had framed the bill as the first test of the president's
commitment to fighting climate change in his second term and urged him to veto
it. Obama quietly signed it Tuesday over their objections.
Excerpt:
She said that homosexuals should be ‘beaten up’ and that a Muslim marrying a
non-Muslim was on ‘the straight path to hellfire’.
Hundreds
of Thai schools shut over militant attacks
Didn’t
get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: Teachers in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand
decided Monday to suspend classes at hundreds of schools in the region over the
killings of education workers by Muslim militants. "We want to put
pressure on security forces and the government to take greater care of our
safety," Boonsom Thongsriply, chairman of the teachers association in the
region, told AFP.
Crowd
of 300 sexually assaults three women in Tahrir Square
Excerpt:
A crowd of 300 young people on Sunday sexually assaulted three
women near Tahrir Square, according to a report on the website of Egypt’s flagship paper Al-Ahram.
Hamas
Music Video: "Killing Jews Is Worship That Draws Us Close To Allah"
Excerpt:
Liberals in the West continue to deny the reality that Hamas' (and the Muslim
Brotherhood's) brand of Islam is more about hate than tolerance, but Hamas has
no problem making it clear ... Islamic Jew hatred is commanded in the
quran.
Where
were the accusations of racism when the left criticized Condoleezza Rice?
Racists: Blacks
fret free-for-all for Jesse Jackson Jr. seat
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84277.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84277.html
Excerpt:
Black leaders are growing increasingly worried that a white candidate might
seize the seat of former Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson in
the upcoming Illinois special election.
The
‘Untold’ False History That the Left Tells All the Time. By Daniel
Greenfield
Excerpt: Oliver Stone’s “The Untold History of the United States” is
one of those untold histories that are told over and over again by the left.
But no matter how often the left retells the same stories, it makes sure to add
an “untold” in there, not because their revisionism of history was previously
untold, but because the idea that a secret history is being uncovered carries
with it a whiff of daring and rebellion that appeals to the students of a
college campus looking for fresh answers and reversals of everything that they
thought was true while growing up. (I was sorry to see that Showtime was
putting on Stone's latest bit of propaganda about our nation. Not that we were
ever perfect, or ever will be, but there's a really important difference
between seeing the nation as an overall wonderful thing but with warts and
scars like everyone has, versus as an innately flawed country whose history is
actually dominated by its flaws, mistakes, excesses, and immoralities. And the
reason for pushing the vision of the USA as being more bad than good is to
justify its major overhaul into a wonderful fully socialist state where
everyone takes what the need and contributes what they can. Under the careful
guidance, of course, of a corps of the truly enlightened. That this vision has
never once been brought into reality and all efforts at doing so only brought
on horrendous levels of suffering and death is something that is real history,
with evidence stacked up to the stars; but the Leftist visionaries cannot grasp
that, will not acknowledge that, and go on with their fantasy vision of the
world to be no matter what. Sadly, they get into academia and affect far too
many young minds. --Del)
BRICS:
The Worlds new Banker? By Rajeev Sharma
Excerpt: The BRICS (Brazil,
Russia, India, China and South Africa) bloc has begun planning
its own development bank and a new bailout fund which would be created by
pooling together an estimated $240 billion in foreign exchange reserves,
according to diplomatic sources. To get a sense of how significant the proposed
fund would be, the fund would be larger than the combined Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) of about 150 countries, according to Russia
and India Report.( A game changer? The author seems to think China's proposal
to use its yuan is rather far fetched and will be vetoed by the other members.
But if not, the dollar could be in for some rough times. In that case, the Fed
and the Administration may be forced to stop
issuing unbacked trillions n play money. They may even be forced to stop
intentionally creating debts that will never be paid off. --Don Hank)
Britain should vote
on leaving EU, Italian prime minister Mario Monti says. By Nick Squires in Rome
and James Kirkup
Excerpt: Mario Monti said he had told Mr Cameron in person
that he must resolve “the fundamental question" over Britain's future: “Do
you want to remain in the European Union or not?” He also suggested that some
European politicians, especially in France, would like Britain to leave the
union. (Quote: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, told MEPs earlier this
month that Britain could be left “alone in the world” if it leaves the EU. Angie
Baby always comes up with these charming little gems. If I were a Brit, I think
I would say "PLEASE leave us alone in the world. We'll do just fine."
Please be sure to take the poll. So far almost 90% of respondents want OUT!
--Don Hank. Won't take the poll. Not my place to tell the Brits what to do.
Though I thought at the time that Churchill was right and they should have
stayed out. ~Bob.)
'Shut Up, Grandpa.' By Daren Jonescu
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/shut_up_grandpa.html#ixzz2DTE90g7r
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/shut_up_grandpa.html#ixzz2DTE90g7r
Excerpt: Democrat experts declare that laughable old coots
are the natural core of the Republican Party, so one need only join the cool
leftist majority and leave Grandpa in his kitchen chair to mutter to himself
until death shuts him up for good. Republican experts, as the reluctant
stewards of these cantankerous fogies, are more circumspect: they merely want to
leave Grandpa ranting in the corner with his talk radio shows, while they
attend to the urgent business of selling off his prized possessions (e.g.
property rights, national sovereignty).
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