Old Jarhead’s
Political SitRep for May 2, 2013
Robert A. Hall
Spring hit Chicago
Worth Viewing: Tribute to Vietnam
From students at the college of the Ozarks.
Worth Reading
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/01/nine-things-youll-learn-from-pews-poll-of-the-worlds-muslims/#ixzz2S8mAvC9y
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/01/nine-things-youll-learn-from-pews-poll-of-the-worlds-muslims/#ixzz2S8mAvC9y
Excerpt: 1.) A majority of Muslims in several countries
think adulterers and apostates should be put to death.
Interesting Chart: Sharia do
like it
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/04/daily-chart-20?fsrc=scn/tw/te/dc/Shariadolikeit
Excerpt: A new study reveals what Islam means in different
countries. (The freedom to choose your faith, and leave one you no longer find
to be true or speaking to your soul, is a fundamental one -- and more than 70
percent of Muslims in Pakistan ,
Jordan , Afghanistan , and Egypt believe it should be legal to
kill you for leaving Islam. –Jim Geraghty)
Three arrested for
allegedly helping suspect after Boston
Excerpt: Two college friends of the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon
bombing were accused Wednesday of trying to cover up his
involvement by removing evidence from his dorm room and a third was charged
with lying to the FBI.
Six ways the GOP can
make the Massachusetts
Excerpt: The Republican establishment breathed a sigh of
relief when Boston businessman Gabriel Gomez won Tuesday's GOP primary in the Massachusetts
special Senate race, believing he represents the party's best chance at an
unlikely pick-up in liberal Massachusetts .
Gomez, a Hispanic, former Navy SEAL investment firm executive, has the
type of outsider credibility and centrist leanings the GOP hopes will play well
against 18-term Rep. Ed Markey, the Democratic nominee.
Excerpt: The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued
subpoenas to firms and individuals connected to the leak last month of a
federal funding decision that appeared to cause a surge in stock trading of
several major health companies.
Excerpt: How much do you think Medicare will pay a doctor or
a nurse for keeping a patient out of the hospital? Answer: zero. That’s pretty
amazing when you consider that Medicare’s hospitalization insurance (Part A) is
spending about $250 billion every year. Yet it allocates not one thin dime for
keeping-patients-out-of-the-hospital activities. If you go down the list of
about 7,500 tasks that Medicare pays doctors to perform, you’ll discover that
reducing hospitalization just isn’t there.
USDA spending $4
million to increase food stamp use at farmers markets
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/02/usda-spending-4-million-to-increase-food-stamp-use-at-farmers-markets/#ixzz2S8lk0mgz
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/02/usda-spending-4-million-to-increase-food-stamp-use-at-farmers-markets/#ixzz2S8lk0mgz
Excerpt: The Department of Agriculture announced a $4
million dollar, expanded-eligibility plan to increase food stamp access at
farmers markets this week.
Obama housing
nominee: Most white people won’t vote for black candidate, should be excluded
from ‘democratic process’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/01/obama-housing-nominee-most-white-people-wont-vote-for-black-candidate-should-be-excluded-from-democratic-process/#ixzz2S8mvGe8y
Excerpt: President Obama’s pick to head the Federal Housing Finance
Agency
once said that a “majority of white voters” would never vote for a black
candidate and that they should be excluded from “the democratic process.”
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/01/obama-housing-nominee-most-white-people-wont-vote-for-black-candidate-should-be-excluded-from-democratic-process/#ixzz2S8mvGe8y
Excerpt: President Obama’s pick to head the Federal Housing Finance
Agency
once said that a “majority of white voters” would never vote for a black
candidate and that they should be excluded from “the democratic process.”
Botched ObamaCare
rollout tops Democratic fears for 2014 election
Excerpt: Anxious Democrats fear a botched implementation of
ObamaCare could dash their hopes of controlling the House and Senate for
President Obama’s last two years in office. At his press conference Tuesday,
Obama acknowledged “glitches and bumps” in the law’s rollout, but some
congressional Democrats fear much worse.
Expanding Medicaid
Didn’t Lead To Big Health Gains In Oregon
Excerpt: Although expanding Medicaid coverage to some
low-income Oregon
residents substantially improved their mental health and reduced financial
strains on them, it didn’t significantly boost their physical health, according to a
study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of
Medicine.
Four in 10 Americans
Unaware ObamaCare Is Law of the Land
Excerpt: More than three years after the Affordable Care Act
("ObamaCare") was signed into law, Americans are still confused about
what the bill does and whether or not it is even law. A new Kaiser Family
Foundation public opinion poll finds that a large percentage of the lay public
is unclear about the legal status of ObamaCare or whether Medicaid should be
expanded.
Green Jobs Versus Real Jobs. By Kathleen Hartnett
White
Excerpt: The federal environmental laws passed shortly
before and after the first Earth Day played an important role in this record,
but technologies and efficiencies created by the private market were the
drivers. Americans are fortunate that prosperity has allowed absorption of the
high cost of environmental controls. The level of environmental quality
achieved in the U.S.
remains a dream for declining and developing economies where jobs to secure
basic sustenance remain the overarching priority.
How the Wheels Came
Off for Fisker
Excerpt: One year ago, one of the highlights of any electric
car aficionado's garage would have surely been the Fisker Karma, a $100,000
plug-in hybrid electric car with great aesthetic beauty. But for all its
beauty, the car is riddled with software errors, design flaws and malfunctioning
parts. Fisker, like many other companies that received U.S. loans for
green-friendly initiatives, is on the brink of failure, says the Wall Street
Journal. Many buyers of the high-priced vehicles have demanded refunds as
stagnant gas prices have simultaneously reduced demand for electric cars. Fisker,
based in Anaheim , California
Excerpt: By destroying Cyprus ’s
bank-centric business model and by imposing severe austerity on the country
within a euro straitjacket, the International Monetary Fund–European Union
bailout package for Cyprus
is likely to lead to the literal collapse of the Cypriot economy over the next
year and to Cyprus ’s
exit from the euro. Such a course of events will have important ramifications
for the rest of the European Monetary Union. When the dust settles and future
historians seek to draw lessons from Cyprus ’s sorry experience in the
euro, they will likely draw the following conclusions.
Excerpt: Beginning at least as early as 2007, Chinese
computer spies raided the databanks of almost every major U.S. defense
contractor and made off with some of the country’s most closely guarded
technological secrets, according to two former Pentagon officials who asked not
to be named because damage assessments of the incidents remain classified.
Excerpt: The Obama administration is reportedly negotiating
a plea bargain that would spare the life of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev and that could allow the FBI to continue interrogating the suspect
about other terrorist plots.
Bloomberg’s Banana Republic. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Bicycles are one of the obsessions of Mayor
Bloomberg and his transportation secretary Janette Sadik-Khan. Khan is the
granddaughter of Imam Alimjan Idris, a Nazi collaborator and principle teacher
at an SS school for Imams under Hitler’s Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini. The bio
of his son, Wall Street executive Orhan
Sadik-Khan, frequently mentions the bombing of the family home in Dresden and surviving
trying times after World War II. It neglects to mention that the times were
only trying because their side was losing.
Hating the Flag. By Bruce Bawer
Excerpt: Of course, once you’ve reached the point of having
to discuss whether your country’s commemoration of its freedom and independence
should be turned into a UN-style tribute to diversity and divided loyalties,
the horse has already fled the barn. The point isn’t to ban or not to ban –
it’s to shape a society in which immigrants, let alone their children, wouldn’t
ever think of showing up with some other flag.
Excerpt: Yet insidiously, the Middle
East is becoming irrelevant. The discovery of enormous new oil and
gas reserves along with the use of new oil-recovery technology in North America
and China
is steadily curbing the demand for Middle Eastern oil. Soon, countries such as Kuwait , Saudi
Arabia and Iran are going to have less income
and geostrategic clout. In both Iran
and the Gulf, domestic demand is rising, while there is neither the technical
know-how nor the water to master the new art of fracking to sustain exports.
NBA Player 'Comes
Out' -- but Tolerance Cuts Both Ways. By Larry Elder
Excerpt: Tolerance cuts both ways. What happens to a player
who says, "I think homosexuality is a sin," or, "Got no problem
playing with or against him, but I don't approve of his lifestyle"? Or a
player who asks: "What's all this business about 'bravery'? What Collins
does behind closed doors is his business. Why do I need to know about it?"
The Myth of the
‘Homegrown Terrorist.’ By Michael Ledeen
Excerpt: The Myth of the Day is… that there are normal
Americans who, on their own, and certainly without any input from foreign
countries or terrorist groups, up and become terrorists. Such persons exist —
from the Unabomber to those who have slaughtered innocents in our schools or
movie theaters — but they are not the sorts that I’m talking about, the sorts
the myth commonly refers to. The myth and the phrase are typically applied to
actual or would-be killers who are motivated by strong ideological or religious
beliefs.
Tweet from @davidfrum
As Syrian war reduces to Iran v. al Qaida, it gets harder to
choose sides
Confirmed: Black and
Hispanic Families Lost Most Wealth Under Obama
Excerpt: Despite their overwhelming support for radical
Barack Obama, blacks and Hispanics lost the greatest percentage of wealth
during the Obama years.
Excerpt: It is always amazing how many serious issues are
not discussed seriously, but instead simply generate assertions and
counter-assertions. On television talk shows, people on opposite sides often
just try to shout each other down. There is a remarkable range of ways of
seeming to argue without actually producing any coherent argument.
Tsarnaev family received
$100G in benefits
Excerpt: The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected
terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in
taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to
Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012, the Herald has learned.
Excerpt: Russia delivered
to the Obama administration a list of the names of al-Qaida members among the
Syrian rebels, who are receiving arms shipments coordinated by the U.S. , according
to informed Middle Eastern security officials. The list, the officials added,
demonstrates the U.S. is
failing to vet the rebels being supported by the West for ties to al-Qaida and
other jihad groups.
Obama's Borrowed More
Per Household ($53,616) Than Median Household Earns ($50,502)
Excerpt: Under President Barack Obama, the federal
government's debt has increased by an amount per household that exceeds the
annual median household income.
Obama Protects Islam
At All Costs
Excerpt: All over the world, Christianity is under attack.
Muslim countries are murdering, torturing and incarcerating people for one
reason, and one reason only, their Christian faith. Here in America our
government sits on its collective hands and white washes or conveniently
ignores the acts of violent Islamists that continue to plan to take more lives.
Jason Collins 'outs'
himself, but fails to tell ex-fiancé he's gay
Excerpt: Basketball's Jason Collins made headlines
recently by telling the world he's actually homosexual, but the one person
he didn't notify was his long-time ex, as reported by the New York Daily
News on April 30, 2013. The jilted Carolyn Moos claims that her former
fiancé of eight years, Boston Celtics center Jason Collins, failed to notify
her that he was homosexual, despite the fact that the two had been planning
their nuptials for almost a decade. (Uhhh....the eight year waiting period
should have been a clue. MasterGuns)
Dick Durbin at May
Day Immigration Rally: Communists? What Communists?
Excerpt: On Wednesday, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined
nearly two thousand trade unionists, open communists, socialists, anarchists
and illegal aliens at Chicago 's
May Day march and rally.
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Regarding the Chinese spies purportedly beating us at every turn - the same was said of the Soviets from the end of WWII until the USSR collapsed. Unhappily, I think the Chinese might be smarter than their one time vassals....
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