Enjoy. I expect to be off line for a few days with my job
transition and doctors’ appointments. ~Bob
Who is to blame for the Government Shutdown?
Either side could have avoided it
by giving in to the other, thus are equally to blame (or credit?). When the
media or pundits blame one side or the other, they are idiots or partisan
hacks. In fact, the GOP backed off defund to a one-year delay, so who won’t
compromise? But the media is reporting that Obama won’t negotiate with Republicans, who refuse to compromise! GOP
will have to give in on including Congress in Obamacare, though. Senate
Democrats will never agree to being treated like everyone else. And it’s a
pretty good bet the government “workers” will get back wages for not working
during the “shutdown.” ~Bob.)
Stephen Colbert
blames Obama for gov’t shutdown in ‘Breaking Bad’ spoof
Tweet from Chris Coon @Coondawg68
AP Republicans "stubbornly demanded" but Obama,
Reid "adamantly refused"
Tweet from The_One_Who_Brings @AceofSpadesHQ
I wish I knew which party the media reflexively supported
like a lover but damnit, they're so cautious with their language I JUST CAN'T
TELL
Destroying Household
Jobs. By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: Despite evidence from around the world that minimum
wage laws can price low-skilled workers out of jobs, the U.S. Department of
Labor is planning to extend minimum wage coverage to domestic workers, such as
maids or those who drop in from time to time to do a few household chores for
the sick and the elderly. This coverage is scheduled to begin in January 2015 —
that is, after the 2014 elections and nearly two years before the 2016
elections. Politicians show a lot of cleverness in protecting their own
interests, even if they show very little wisdom as far as serving the public
interest.
A New Approach to
SSDI Reform: More people with disabilities would return to work if they faced
better incentives. By Jagadeesh Gokhale
Excerpt: One explanation for this inaction is the
availability of an easy short-term fix: temporarily transferring funds from
SSDI’s larger companion trust fund, the Social Security Old Age and Survivor
Insurance (OASI) program. According to the Trustees, the OASI Trust Fund will
not be exhausted until 2034. Were a temporary transfer made from the OASI to
the SSDI trust fund, the combined (OASDI) trust funds would not be exhausted
until 2033.
The Psychological Problems of Using Health Care Exchanges:
Behavioral economics uncovers a few hurdles that consumers will face in picking
an insurance plan. By Danielle
Kurtzleben
Excerpt: But some principles of behavioral economics suggest
that even if the exchanges have a flawless rollout, consumers could have a
bumpy road to choosing their insurance.
In part, that's because the new bevy of choices could
overwhelm consumers, forcing them into bad insurance choices – or even no
insurance at all, says one expert.
How the NFL Fleeces
Taxpayers
Excerpt: Taxpayers fund the stadiums, antitrust law doesn't
apply to broadcast deals, the league enjoys nonprofit status, and Commissioner
Roger Goodell makes $30 million a year. It's time to stop the public giveaways
to America 's
richest sports league -- and to the feudal lords who own its teams, says Gregg
Easterbrook, a contributing editor at The Atlantic. In Virginia, Republican
Governor Bob McDonnell, who styles himself as a budget-slashing conservative
crusader, took $4million from taxpayers' pockets and handed the money to the
Washington Redskins for the team to upgrade a workout facility. The Redskins'
owner, Dan Snyder, has a net worth estimated by Forbes at $1billion. (I am
opposed to using tax dollars to support any form of entertainment: sports, the
arts, public radio and TV. ~Bob.)
Egyptian Terrorist
Sympathizer To Receive Human Rights Award?
Excerpt: The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders,
also known as “the Nobel Prize for human rights,” might be awarded to Mona
Seif, a young Egyptian activist who is known for supporting terrorism
against Israel .
Seif, a biology graduate student researching breast cancer mutations, became a
prominent activist documenting the 2011 Egyptian uprising from Tahrir Square . …Her
nomination sparked a backlash from pro-Israeli organizations. Human Rights
Watch, who chose Seif and the other three finalists, also
received harsh criticism.
Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca
Excerpt: It’s almost like God is not terribly fond of the
Haj. SARS has an 8 percent fatality rate. This new Mecca virus has a 65 percent fatality rate.
Welfare State is
Over, Dutch King Announces. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: In other news, republics just don’t work. Holland ’s new king Willem-Alexander today
declared the end of the welfare state in a nationally-televised annual address.
The king, who is at 46 the youngest monarch in Europe, said a new
‘participation society’ would take its place, in which people must save and
invest to create their own social safety net with less help from the national
government.
Issa feared targeted
by terrorists after Democrats revealed secret Libya
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/26/issa-feared-targeted-by-terrorists-after-democrats-revealed-secret-libya-trip/#ixzz2g7EB4jzC
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/26/issa-feared-targeted-by-terrorists-after-democrats-revealed-secret-libya-trip/#ixzz2g7EB4jzC
Excerpt: A leaked State Department email indicates that
officials were worried about the safety of House Oversight Committee chairman
Rep. Darrell Issa after Democrats revealed his plans for a secret trip to Libya this
week. Issa, a Republican from California ,
has safely returned from his fact-finding trip to the country as his committee
continues to investigate the terrorist attacks that killed America ’s ambassador and three others in Benghazi on Sept.
11, 2012. CBS News reported Thursday on an email that quoted a
Libyan national sharing “his concern and his opinion that Representative Issa
should not come to Libya for
his own safety.” (Loose lips cheaper than a drone strike? Who are the
anarchists and terrorists? –Barb)
Daniel Henninger: Let
ObamaCare Collapse. Congress can't kill the entitlement state. Only the
American people can.
Excerpt: The public's dislike of ObamaCare isn't growing
with every new poll for reasons of philosophical attachment to notions of
liberty and choice. Fear of ObamaCare is growing because a cascade of news
suggests that ObamaCare is an impending catastrophe.
Excerpt: There is a reason why every fiat currency in the
history of the world has eventually failed. At some point, those issuing fiat
currencies always find themselves giving in to the temptation to wildly print
more money. Sometimes, the motivation for doing this is good. When an economy
is really struggling, those that have been entrusted with the management of
that economy can easily fall for the lie that things would be better if people
just had “more money”. (Like the author says, quantitative easing isn't
complicated. Only the name is. Because the name is pure obfuscation. It aims to
throw dust in your eyes for a while. I explained it to my wife today, for about
the 10th time (I think she finally is getting it). She said, "I don't get
it. Didn't the government always print money?" I said
"Well, the Fed (which is sometimes mistaken for the government because it
works hand in hand with it) always did print money. But traditionally, it would
mostly print money just to keep up with the 2% inflation target which it set
for itself (which it was never tasked with doing) and to replenished damaged
old banknotes. The banks would send their worn out bills to the Fed and the Fed
would send back newly-printed ones--or newly minted coins as the case may be.
But NOW the Fed is printing vastly more than the amount corresponding to the
inflation and the wear and tear on the banknotes. When such unbridled printing
was tried in the Weimar
Republic
New Report Undercuts Global Warming Alarmists. By Michael Barone
Excerpt: But the subject here is not Millerism, but another
kind of religious faith: the faith of the global warming alarmists. And while
it's not likely to have the impact of the Millerites' Great Disappointment, we
could be seeing the beginning of something similar on Sept. 27, when the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues its fifth assessment report in
Stockholm .
Global warming believers
feel the heat. By James Delingpole
Excerpt: At the heart of the problem lie the computer models
which, for 25 years, have formed the basis for the IPCC’s scaremongering: they
predicted runaway global warming, when the real rise in temperatures has been
much more modest. So modest, indeed, that it has fallen outside the lowest
parameters of the IPCC’s prediction range. The computer models, in short, are
bunk.
Energy Game Changer.
By Harry R. Jackson, Jr.
Excerpt: Far from being on the brink of a true energy
shortage, two relatively new discoveries open up the possibility that
affordable, abundant energy lies in our foreseeable future. Crystalline natural
gas (known to scientists as methane hydrate) can be found in tremendous
quantities underneath the ocean. In layman’s terms, methane hydrate is ice that
can be burned for fuel.
Cruz Control Should
Be Standard on GOP Models. By Ann Coulter
Excerpt: If I could briefly interrupt the Republican firing
squad aiming at Ted Cruz, let's talk about something we all agree on. And by
"we all," I mean a majority of the American people, the Teamsters,
many Democrats and every single last Republican. Obamacare is an unmitigated
disaster.
Peas in a Pod:
Farrakhan Sups with Rouhani: Made for each other. By Rick Moran
Excerpt: Say you're the brand new leader of the
Islamic Republic of Iran and you visit the US for the first time. Just who do
you want coming to dinner? If you're President Hassan Rouhani of Iran ,
one name you simply can't leave off the guest list is Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan.
Liberalism and Mass
Shootings. By J. R. Dunn
Excerpt: According to John Lott, Jr. every last mass killing
since the 1950s has occurred in a "gun-free zone." The Navy Yard
massacre is only the latest. In an early example of using the military to
pioneer obnoxious social doctrines, Bill Clintonsigned a bill in March 1993 rendering military bases
"gun free."
Obama Has Dismantled America
Excerpt: Kenya
has been a beacon for democracy in Africa . But
Africa has come under the boot of Islam under a post-American U.S. president
who is aiding and abetting the global jihad. Obama aided Islamic supremacists
in Egypt , Libya , Tunisia ,
and Algeria .
The
Racially-Motivated Mass-Shooting the Media Doesn't Want to Talk About. By John
Nolte
Excerpt: According to the Grand Jury indictments, a black
man named Lakim Faust entered a Walmart in June with more than a hundred rounds
of ammunition, and targeted white people based on their race: Police said
Faust’s first victim on June 21 was an insurance adjustor in the
parking lot of a law firm. He then crossed a five-lane highway and shot three
more people in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart, investigators said.
Obama-linked
Islamists Downplay Coptic Suffering on Social Media. By John Rossomando
Excerpt: Dalia Moghaed, credited with helping President Obama draft his June
2009 Cairo speech about American relations with
the Islamic world, recently downplayed attacks against Egypt 's Coptic
Christians on a Facebook page.
Excerpt: The [British government's] guiding
principle is to treat everyone as "equal" – well, everyone who
is not Christian, that is. In their rush to erase all distinctions between
races, religions and sexual preferences, these bigwigs fail to distinguish
between good and evil. That does not comfort the majority of Muslims, who'd
never hurt a Christian; instead, it makes them feel contemptuous of a civilisation
that no longer knows what's wrong.
Christians are being
thrown to the lions again. By Peter Stanford
Excerpt: Archbishop Justin Welby’s choice of the word “martyrs” to describe
the 81 Pakistani Christians killed when their church in
Peshawar was targeted by suicide bombers has raised eyebrows. It is the sort of
language avoided nowadays in the secular, sceptical West, with its
taken-for-granted religious freedoms, in case it makes people feel
uncomfortable. Yet in terms of Christian history the Archbishop of
Canterbury’s description is surely accurate.
Recruit
Hurst, J. E. - Platoon 2095. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Recruit Hurst
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/1417397c2c841b59
Excerpt: The other night Senator Ted Cruz, Republican Senator from Texas stood up and spoke
against the funding of Obamacare for 21 plus hours. He cited the already proven
inefficiencies in the program, the massive $13 trillion dollars added to the
deficit and the ever increasing government oppression in our personal lives. Both
Senator Paul and Senator Rubio were in the Senate chambers cheering him on and
assisting when Cruz needed a sip of water. How dumb these guys are. They are
fighting with principle against a tide of superficiality and ignorance.
Phony fatwa? Group
claims Iranian anti-nuke edict cited by Obama a hoax
Excerpt: President Obama could be hanging his hopes for
productive nuclear negotiations with Iran on a hoax, according to one
Middle East-focused think tank.
On Friday, Obama cited a “fatwa,” or religious edict, from Iran ’s
all-powerful Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, banning the pursuit of nuclear
weapons.
Interfaith outreach
in Egypt
Excerpt: Few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic
law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that
Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when
he consummated the marriage:
Yemen gunmen kill
suspected homosexual, police say
Now don’t go all Islamophobic on me. As the progressives
say, all cultures are equally valid. ~Bob
Fact Check: Obama's
ObamaCare claims
Excerpt: As the Obama administration scrambles to roll out
the health care exchanges for their Tuesday debut, it’s worth a look
back on the conflicting claims the White House has made on how the exchanges
help, who they benefit and what they promise.
ACORN Crooks on the March for Obamacare. By Matthew Vadum
Excerpt: A corrupt union ringleader who orchestrated massive
campaigns involving identity fraud in furtherance of voter fraud and who
covered up a million-dollar embezzlement involving pension funds will soon have
unfettered access to confidential information on thousands of people seeking
health insurance.
Why Terrorists Kill. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: But there’s nothing senseless about the violence
that took place. Terrorists kill because it’s what they do. Plumbers unclog
toilets. Computer companies sell you software. Terrorist organizations kill
people.
Are Guns the Problem? By Walter Williams
Excerpt: What about gun availability? Catalogs and magazines
from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s were full of gun advertisements directed to
children and parents. For example, “What Every Parent Should Know When a Boy or
Girl Wants a Gun” was published by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The
1902 Sears mail-order catalog had 35 pages of firearm advertisements. People
just sent in their money, and a firearm was shipped. For most of our history, a
person could simply walk into a hardware store, virtually anywhere in our
country, and buy a gun. Few states bothered to have even age restrictions on
buying guns.
Time for
Conservatives to Make a Decision: Dump the GOP
Excerpt: After the 2008 Iowa caucus, I made what some would describe
as wild predictions. Some were right, some were close, others were off and
others still await the future. At that time, I thought that Hillary Clinton
would be the next President. The meteoric ascendancy of Barack Obama caught me
and the rest of the nation by surprise.
Mom Protects Home
with Gun Twice in Four Months
Excerpt: It is very likely every mother's worst nightmare.
To wake up in the middle of the night, having heard a noise just outside the safety
of the walls of your home and knowing that you are likely all of the protection
you and your children have. A call to the police may work, but how long might
it take for them to respond? Five minutes, ten? Even less may be just too long.
That is the nightmare that Toledo ,
Ohio
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: California
park rangers found three hundred tons of pot growing in a forest guarded by
bears. Now it all makes sense. Bears sleep three months a year, all you ever
see them doing is rummaging through the trash looking for food, and their
leader's name is Smokey.
Good Column: Geezer zombies, coming to a reality near
you. By John Kass
Excerpt: Establishment pols continue bickering over crumbs
while refusing to do much about those fiscally ravenous and unsustainable
entitlement programs like Medicare, Social Security and Obamacare. And the
young are encouraged to believe that those of both parties who spend and spend
are compassionate — and therefore kind and cool. Unfortunately for them, the unsustainable
federal spending is neither kind nor cool. They voted for Obama, so tough for
them. ~Bob.)
100 Unintended
Consequences of Obamacare: Companies, workers, retirees,
students, and spouses all suffer from the law’s inflexible
mandates. By Andrew Johnson
Excerpt: Yet from major corporations to local mom-and-pop
shops, from entire states to tiny school districts, a wide range of companies
and institutions have seen Obamacare’s negative impact on their workers,
budgets, and production. Here are 100 examples of how Obamacare is falling
short of what was promised.
Well, it’s not like IL is broke, right? ~Bob
Beware ObamaCare. By
Sen. John Barrasso, MD
Excerpt: Four facts about the new health care system that
should raise concerns. (Dr. Barrasso is an orthopaedic surgeon. ~Bob)
Mental health leading
cause of military hospital stays
In my day, the Gunny took you behind the barracks and got
your head straight…Bob
EPA's 'secret agent'
con man pleads guilty -- then pleads the Fifth
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/01/epa-secret-agent-con-man-pleads-guilty-then-pleads-fifth/
Excerpt: A high-ranking federal Environmental Protection
Agency official who admitted to cheating the government out of nearly $1
million by pretending to be a secret agent, smugly refused to answer questions
from lawmakers Tuesday, invoking the Fifth Amendment – even though he’s already
pleaded guilty.
Excerpt: Those heartless GOP Tea Party types can either put
funding for Obamacare back into the spending bill, or the blood of members of
Congress wounded attempting to open their own doors is on their hands:
Excerpt: All the House Democratic leaders, from
conservatives like Steny Hoyer, Steve Israel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Joe
Crowley to "liberals" like Nancy Pelosi,
Jim Clyburn and Xavier Becerra, are working to round up votes inside the caucus
to back Obama's plan to bomb Syria . (Conservatives? ~Bob)
What Iran
Excerpt: To believe in the current Iranian, post-Syrian
peace initiative, we would have to believe that the Iranian theocracy concedes,
in a stunning Qaddafi-like turn-around, that its decade-long effort to obtain
nuclear weapons was a terrible strategic mistake that earned it only ostracism
and crippling sanctions that have no chance of being ended by a resolute West.
Tweet from Ken Gardner @kesgardner
So, President Stompy Foot is closing a WWII memorial even
though it is outside and unmanned anyway. Isn’t he awesome?
Merck to Fire 8,500 in Strategy Overhaul That Shifts
R&D
Excerpt: Merck & Co. (MRK), the second-biggest U.S. drugmaker by sales, will fire 8,500 workers
and revamp its research and development after seeing new medicines delayed by U.S.
regulators. The positions eliminated add to 7,500 cuts already announced,
the Whitehouse Station, New
Jersey-based company said in a statement today. That amounts to 20 percent of
Merck’s total workforce
Video: MSNBC Anchor
Tries to Enroll in Obamacare On Air, Fails, Gives Up
California telecom to
relocate N. American HQ to Dallas
Excerpt: Emeryville, Calif.-based Ciao Telecom, a global
telecommunications provider, plans to relocate its North American headquarters
to Dallas-Fort Worth.
Despite charm
offensive, fatal car chase haunts Saudi religious police
Excerpt: The head of the Saudi religious police, Sheikh
Abdullatif Al Sheikh, admitted on Sunday that a recent car-chase pursuit
which involved members of his force had killed a young Saudi and injured
another, in an interview with Al Arabiya TV.
Excerpt: The number of deaths from terror reached 1,000 in
September in Iraq ,
a number that rivals the worst of the Iraq War and a sign that violence is
getting out of control. (Heck of a job ending the Iraq War, Barry. ~Bob)
Fresh DOJ loss in
‘Fast and Furious’ docs fight
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/fast-and-furious-doj-documents-97604.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/fast-and-furious-doj-documents-97604.html
Excerpt: A federal judge has rejected Attorney General Eric
Holder’s attempt to keep the courts from wading into the “Fast and Furious”
documents dispute that led to him being held in contempt by the House last
year. (DOJ using the Syrian strategy: Delay, Delay. ~Bob)
Black Biker Gang Behind Suv Attack In Nyc: Police make
arrest after assault caught on tape. By Colin Flaherty
Saw on TV, but no mention of race. ~Bob
Why Climate
Science is Fallible. By Dr. David Deming
Excerpt: But the common understanding of science is largely
an ignorant misconception. Although most science is based on observation and
reason, there is no such thing as an agreed upon scientific method. It doesn’t
exist.
Will the White House
Chefs be Sent Home?
Excerpt: The government shutdown that starts today results
in temporary pink slips to “nonessential” government workers, begging the
obvious question: Are the White House chefs essential?
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