Old Jarhead's Political SitRep for December 19, 2012
Your one-stop-shop for political news and opinion. Please forward to friends who need to be informed. This SitRep (Military for “Situation Report”) is created by many readers who send me items for inclusion, which I would have likely missed or skipped. And I can only spend at most three hours a night pulling stuff, plus the healthcare or economic stuff that crosses my desk at work. As always, I—and you—owe them thanks and appreciation. I post articles because I think they are of interest and will stimulate thought and discussion. Doing so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree (or disagree) with every—or any—opinion in the posted article, or that I was able to verify the information presented, which is the responsibility of the author. I try not to post things that are false, or too far a stretch, regardless of the view point, but I don’t always succeed. As always on the Net, or in the legacy media, you must read critically and with skepticism.
Be Nice to the Taliban
Cartoon.
Advice for my Granddaughter: For When I'm Gone
All royalties go to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Mr. Scott's appointment requires him to stand for a special election in 2014, though he has a record as a House conservative in sync with Palmetto State Florida , Ted Cruz of Texas , Susana Martinez of New Mexico , Brian Sandoval of Nevada
Conservative Black Senator Called Black Only in Skin Color by Liberals
Excerpt: Tim Scott has been appointed to fill the South Carolina Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Jim DeMint and immediately the racebaiters jumped in with both feet to attack him. One of the early hatemongers was Amos Brown, a host on a religious radio station in Indianapolis , Indiana
Excerpt: Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii , the second-longest-serving senator in U.S. America in WWII, when American citizens of Japanese descent were discriminated against by the Roosevelt administration, dispossessed, and locked into camps. ~Bob.)
There are so many interesting takes on guns today, all worth reading, that I’ve tried to lump them in one section, below. ~Bob
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Let's suppose Adam Lanza, the killer at Sandy Hook Elementary, had been armed with machetes, baseball bats, golf clubs, axes, hammers, tire irons, crow bars, broken bottles, or a chain saw. Would the carnage have been any less? Maybe. Maybe not.
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Excerpt: When it comes to the rate of gun ownership, that is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas. The rate of gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, but the murder rate is higher among blacks. For the country as a whole, hand gun ownership doubled in the late 20th century, while the murder rate went down.
Excerpt: Do you really see Southern-style gun culture in these videos and words and images, or do you see a different, more modern culture at work? I see youngsters raised to consider themselves little gods, who see their self-esteem as king and who believe their angst must always be taken seriously. I see youth brought up in a world where we are increasingly encouraged to cultivate a persona, preferably a dangerous, edgy one, through media like YouTube and Twitter.
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Excerpt: In 1999, the National Institute of Justice published a study by criminologists Jeffrey Roth and Christopher Koper, “Impacts of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban: 1994–96.” It examined the effects of the federal assault-weapons ban in its first two years of operation and found no statistically significant reduction in murder rates. “The ban did not produce declines in the average number of victims per incident of gun murder or gun murder victims with multiple wounds.”
Excerpt: Nick drew down on the shooter as they made eye contact, and Nick prepared to fire. However, he determined (like any conscious firearms owner should) that there were other people behind Roberts, and his shot was not safe. The only shot fired after this point was Roberts taking his own life.
Excerpt: But by limiting their discussion only to shootings, they ignore the worst school massacre in U.S. Newtown , Connecticut University of Texas Colorado Bath Township , Michigan
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Excerpt: The gun control debate, like all debates with the left, is reducible to the question of whether we are individuals who make our own decisions or a great squishy social mass that helplessly responds to stimuli. Do people kill with guns or does the availability of guns kill people? Do bad eating habits kill people or does the availability of junk food kill people? To the left these are distinctions without a difference.
Gun Prosecutions Down 40% During Obama Presidency
Excerpt: Now Barack Obama is using the Newtown
Watch what happens when Guns are banned in Australia
'Guns are not bling... they are killing machines': Judge's warning as he jails gangsters for 81 years for killing man they mistook for crack dealer
Excerpt: Three members of a gang who executed an innocent man after mistaking him for drug dealer were jailed for a total of at least 81 years today. Anthony McKenzie, 23, Samir Yusuf, 24, and Devana Palmer, 21, were all handed lengthy prison terms for the murder of Kenrick Wickham who was shot in the back of the head as he begged for mercy. (Boy, they need gun control. Oh, wait, this is Britain
Double Standards on Death. By Lloyd Billingsley
Excerpt: President Obama, meanwhile, did not make a televised speech at Brian Terry’s memorial service. Neither did the president appear on television in the wake of Major Nidal Hasan’s murderous rampage in 2009 at Fort Hood
http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/18/washington-post-video-games-dont-kill-people-people-kill-people/#ixzz2FQgt8nc3
Excerpt: Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old Connecticut Sandy Hook shooting. “…. But shouldn’t we also quit marketing murder as a game?” he tweeted on Sunday. (The 2nd coming must be this Friday, 12/21/12…I find myself actually agreeing with Axelrod about video games…. Promoting violence has been a Hollywood
Man Tries To Drown Wife In Dog Bowl After Fight Over Frozen Pizza
Excerpt: Orange City
In the Muslim World, with a majority of members of “The Religion of Peace,” the Newtown
Bomb attacks in Iraq
Excerpt: Car and truck bombs were detonated mainly in ethnically diverse towns and villages in northern Iraq
Excerpt: At least 17 people have been killed and more than 70 hurt in a car bomb attack on a market in the Khyber tribal area in north-west Pakistan
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Excerpt: The markets, as most people reading this should now well know, no longer reflect in any way the true economic health of our country. If one were to measure the financial "recovery" of this Nation by the strength of global stocks, he would likely come to the conclusion that the collapse of 2008 was mere hiccup in the overall success of the worldwide economic system. However, electronically traded equities with little more to back their value than scraps of receipt paper and numbers on a screen have no bearing on what is going to happen to you and to me over the course of the coming year. The stock market is a sideshow, a movie, a façade. The real drama is going on behind the scenes and revealed in fundamentals that mainstream analysts no longer discuss. (A while back I had added a few of my mostly Dem-liberal former classmates to this distribution list. Some, whose sentiments were closest to Democrat officialdom, were incensed and lashed out bitterly against the economic figures I was providing, although they were backed up by actual data available in the mainstream press and government agencies. After all, these figures and facts made their messiah look bad. Among the articles and my personal comments were strong recommendations to get out of the stock market to avoid the coming collapse. A few months later, the person who had reacted most violently to my feeds sent an email to the group saying that her investment agent had advised her to get out of stocks altogether. What a surprise! (For her, since she had asked me to take her off the list). I could have responded with an 'I told you so,' but that was so obvious that I figured they knew that anyway, and besides, my aim was not to hurt anyone's feelings but to warn people out of sincere friendship and a desire to help. But people have a need to be lied to in times like these, and while I don't fully understand that, I respect their right to be willfully ignorant. Nota bene: These hard times are when national leaders turn their thoughts toward war. China China
What deficit? California
Excerpt: A psychiatrist in a California Afghanistan , only worked at a California
Highest-Paid California
Excerpt: California Highway Patrol division chief Jeff Talbott retired last year as the best-paid officer in the 12 most-populous U.S.
Domino's founder sues Obama administration over birth control rule
Excerpt: The founder of Domino's Pizza has sued the Obama administration over the mandate that health plans cover birth control. A devout Catholic, billionaire Tom Monaghan called contraception "gravely immoral" and said the mandate violates his religious freedom by requiring his employee health plan to serve as a vehicle for birth control.
House GOP seeks more documents in probe of health law's subsidies
Excerpt: House Republicans demanded more documents Monday in an investigation they hope will derail a key feature of President Obama's healthcare law. Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said the IRS redacted documents about how it decided to handle the law's insurance subsidies. The lawmakers are now asking for an unfiltered look at the decision-making process.
Quotes
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."--Mark Twain
"The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live." --Leo Tolstoy
Woman Wins Workers' Comp Over Sex Accident On Business Trip
Excerpt: An Australian court has ruled that a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex on a business trip is eligible for worker's compensation benefits. … During the sex, a glass light fitting was torn from its mount above the bed and landed on her face, injuring her nose and mouth. She later suffered depression and was unable to continue working for the government. (Recently, a US
Worth Reading
Excerpt: What actually happened in Egypt and Libya U.S.
Govt Offering $378,000 To Teach Chinese Firms U.S.
Excerpt: An independent U.S. Government foreign assistance agency funded by the U.S. Congress is offering a $378,000 contract to host workshops with members of the Chinese shale gas industry to “help introduce Chinese energy sector officials and project sponsors to U.S.
Under-Secretary Of Defense Gave ‘Restricted Information’ To ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Team
Excerpt: Under Secretary of Defense Michael Vickers, considered to be one of the Obama White House's top choices for the CIA Director's position, leaked restricted information to the makers of the Osama bin Laden feature "Zero Dark Thirty." The news, revealed by McClatchy Newspapers today, is separate from an investigation into possible Obama administration leaks to the film's crew currently underway by Judicial Watch.
Thousands Dead by U.S.
Excerpt: It appears that none of the deaths authorized by the president meets these criteria. In these interviews, the president consistently defends the fact that he orders drone strikes to assassinate people based on nothing more than his suspicion that they threaten U.S.
'Did we just kill a kid?': The moment drone operator who assassinated Afghans with the push of a button on a computer in the U.S.
Excerpt: A former U.S. drone operator has opened up about the toll of killing scores of innocent people by pressing a button from a control room in New Mexico Missoula , Montana Afghanistan
Are US drones terrorising civilians?
Excerpt: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that out of the approximately 3,300 people killed in drone strikes in Pakistan Afghanistan Pakistan to attack NATO , US
Transsexual Model Connie Fleming Poses As Michelle Obama On The Cover Of Candy Magazine
http://www.thegloss.com/2012/12/17/fashion/michelle-obama-fashion-pictures-of-michelle-obama-transsexual-connie-fleming-candy-magazine-cover/#ixzz2FNzL2Ygo
http://www.thegloss.com/2012/12/17/fashion/michelle-obama-fashion-pictures-of-michelle-obama-transsexual-connie-fleming-candy-magazine-cover/#ixzz2FNzL2Ygo
Excerpt: The first transsexual style magazine has taken on the first lady for the cover of its Winter 2012 issue, enlisting former model/performer and current fashion illustrator/designer Connie Fleming to pose as Michelle Obama in a most convincing fashion.
Where are the Benghazi
Excerpt: Where are the Benghazi Survivors? … There were others at the compound, but what happened to them? It has been reported that 20 to 30 Americans were evacuated on the night of the attack, but reports are conflicting. Where are the survivors and can they shed any light on the events before and during the terror attack?
The rise and fall of Susan Rice
Excerpt: In truth, Rice’s confirmation hearing would have been the opening act of a public probe into what the White House knew about the terror attack in Libya
Saudi rights activist faces apostasy charge
Excerpt: A Saudi court on Monday referred a rights activist to a higher court for alleged apostasy, a charge that could lead to the death penalty in the ultra-conservative kingdom, activists said.
Excerpt: So were Christians.
Good US
The national debt clock http://www.usdebtclock.org/# is a good source of information. It runs constantly. At present it indicates that there are about $122 trillion in unfunded liabilities. The national assets are estimated at about $92 trillion (a few years earlier it was estimated at $155 trillion, which, if accurate, means that the national assets of the USA USA
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville put forth a thesis that American democracy had a chance because the small-scale entrepreneur (see above) and autonomous, self-reliant agrarian were not so prone to the Siren-calls of the European mob. He felt that we in American would not perhaps follow the model of the fourth-century Athenian dêmos or imperial Roman vulgus that flocked to the cities for the dole, and hated the wealthy the more they taxed them (don’t think Obama will be happy with just raising rates on “millionaires”) — as if the ability to pay high taxes was always proof of the ability to pay even more.
Proposed Cuts from SS, Medicare and the Military; but not the Executive Branch?http://MinuteMenNews.com/2012/12/proposed-cuts-from-ss-medicare-and-the-military-but-not-the-executive-branch/
Excerpt: You are hearing ad nauseam in the discussion of the fiscal cliff about entitlement reform and tax reform (tax increases). What you’re not going to hear hardly anyone talking about is Executive branch reform. Why? I don’t know, but it is very disturbing.
Obama’s Sandy Relief Bill Filled With Pork Barrel Projects
http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/12/obamas-sandy-relief-bill-filled-with-pork-barrel-projects/
Excerpt: If you’re opposed to disaster relief funding, then that means you want disaster victims to continue to suffer as much as possible. Conservative representatives in Congress would only vote against such legislation because they’re cold and heartless individuals. This is generally what liberals and big government Republicans think of those who are not in favor of the federal government giving handouts to storm victims.
http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/12/obamas-sandy-relief-bill-filled-with-pork-barrel-projects/
Excerpt: If you’re opposed to disaster relief funding, then that means you want disaster victims to continue to suffer as much as possible. Conservative representatives in Congress would only vote against such legislation because they’re cold and heartless individuals. This is generally what liberals and big government Republicans think of those who are not in favor of the federal government giving handouts to storm victims.
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