Celebrate October 10th
The anniversary of the Battle of
Tours in 732 AD, when Charles Martel (686-741), forever known as The Hammer,
and his 30,000 Christian soldiers crushed an invading horde of 200,000 Moslem
Jihadis in what is now central France Europe
would have been Islamized and Western Civilization would have been
extinguished. –Jack Wheeler. (Muslims, who attacked Christian lands repeatedly,
including Spain, Egypt and what is now Turkey, complain endlessly about the
response—the Crusades. Martel is supposedly a distant ancestor of mine.
Probably of you too. ~Bob))
Excerpt: The Obama administration will announce curbs on a
significant part of nonessential military aid to Egypt
within a few days, U.S.
officials said Tuesday, marking a shift in America
Why Divorce Attorneys
Will Love Obamacare
Excerpt: A typical 40-year old couple with two kids could
save $7,230 a year by divorcing if one partner earns, say, $70,000 and the
other $23,000. Sixty year-olds earning $62,041 each a year would save $11,028
annually if they broke up. (Since married people tended to vote for Romney and
singles for Obama, this is a feature, not a bug. ~Bob)
Shutdown Fever: Is the House in Play Now? By Stuart Rothenberg
Excerpt: On Sunday, a Huffington Post headline screamed what
most Democrats were hoping: “GOP In Grave Danger Of Losing House In 2014, PPP
Polls Show.” Of course, anything coming from Democratic pollster Public Policy
Polling and MoveOn.org Political Action, which paid for the surveys, must be
taken with at least a grain of salt. PPP isn’t your typical polling firm. Its
surveys often are intended to boost Democratic recruiting, fundraising or
prospects. In this case, the “polls” were almost certainly commissioned to
create a narrative about the political repercussions of the shutdown and the
nature of the midterms.
Obama Speechwriter Misinforms College Students About
Obamacare. By Katherine Rodriguez
Excerpt: President Barack Obama’s former speechwriter
channeled Obama’s rhetorical tactics recently when he told
a roomful of college students that people who know the least
about the Affordable Care Act oppose it the most. ... Fifty-five
percent of Americans who say they are most likely to disapprove of the law are
also the ones who know the most about it, according to Gallup
More media won’t
solve political ignorance. By Jack Shafer
Excerpt: “The sheer depth of most individual voters’
ignorance may be shocking to readers not familiar with the research,” Somin
writes on his first page. Many Americans don’t know how the government works,
they don’t know much about who runs the government, and they’re clueless about
how government programs work. For instance, a 2006 Zogby poll reported that only
42 percent of respondees could name the three branches of government. (I'll
bet a lot of the politically "tuned in" Americans think the
"tuned out" Americans' overall judgment -- well beyond the political
sphere -- is eroding, as well. We've seen our fellow countrymen buying houses
they can't afford. We've seen them go deeply into debt to get a college
education, and then major in a field with extremely limited earning and career
prospects. We've seen young men (and not just young men) create a
child and then refuse to take care of those children. We don't take care of our
health. We don't save for the future. We drink, gamble, take drugs, sleep
around. -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
Many remain locked
out of federal health-care Web site
Excerpt: Major insurers, state health-care officials and
Democratic allies repeatedly warned the Obama administration in recent months
that the new federal health-insurance exchange had significant problems,
according to people familiar with the conversations. Despite those warnings and
intense criticism from Republicans, the White House proceeded with an Oct. 1
launch.
Excerpt: Remember what is happening in health care. We pit
bureaucratic payers against bureaucratic providers. At least that’s the way we
used to describe it. Now it’s software against software. On the physician side
alone, there are 7,500
tasks Medicare pays doctors to perform and the number is
expanding to many thousand more. So providers buy computer programs to help
them maximize against the payment formulas. Then the payers buy programs
to help defend against the provider programs. Then we get another iteration,
with better programs and better defenses, etc. How could this not be
complicated? But has anyone noticed how uncomplicated health care markets are
where there are no third party payers or where they play a subordinate role?
Walk-in clinics have posted prices that are easy for even a fifth grader to
understand, while at a typical physician’s office no one seems to know what
anything costs.
Excerpt: South Korea ’s
main intelligence agency confirmed on Tuesday that North Korea
‘We Didn’t Sell This
Health Care Law, You Did!’: Cavuto Takes on Obama Over Fox News Criticism
Excerpt: Mr. President, we at Fox News are not the problem. I
hate to break it to you, sir. You are. Your words are. Your promises are. We
didn't sell this healthcare law. Sir, you did. Remember this? President Barack
Obama: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period.
Couple kicked out of
national park almost Die
Excerpt: A couple from Arkansas was forced
from their camping spot in Big Bend National Park by a park
ranger. They were told there was a state park nearby and he gave them what
turned out to be a very poor map of the park and the couple got lost and nearly died before they
found a spring.
From a reader
Obama in my parlance stands for Organized Bastard(s) And
Marxist Agitator(s). --DH
A general who won a
war by losing all the battles: Giap could never defeat American arms, but he
panicked Congress into betrayal. By Robert F. Turner
Excerpt: The Oct. 4 death of
former North Vietnamese general and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap has led many commentators to
describe him as “the general who beat the United States
Excerpt: This past week I was reading an investigative
report from Jake Pearson of the Associated Press. He ran a series of reports on
the incarceration costs of housing a prisoner in liberal la la land, New York City New York
Obamacare's Next Round By Jonah
Goldberg
Excerpt: For all the acrimony in Washington
Obama’s Competent Incompetence. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: And then when it came time to debut Obama’s
signature achievement (if you don’t count wrecking the Middle East) the
implementation was every bit as disastrous as if the project had been
outsourced to someone’s cousin who had once taken a web design course in 1996.
The ObamaCare websites didn’t go down because of high demand. They went down
because of bad design.
Media Fail: Obama
Approval Plummets To 37%. By John Nolte
Excerpt: In today's edition of polls the media will
collectively ignore, a new AP-GFK polls finds that Barack Obama's job approval
rating has
plummeted to 37%. The President's disapproval rating is up to 53%.
There is no good news in this poll for anyone, but if past is prologue, this is
the number the media will pretend does not exist as they attempt to manufacture
a reality where only the GOP is in trouble over the shutdown.
A Science Test
Here is a quiz on how much science adults know. Only 7% of
the adult population get all 13 questions correct. See how you do. (13 for 13.
~Bob)
Excerpt: A medical test being developed by Kuwait
"Iran-US talks,
opportunity to prove power of Islam"
Excerpt: Sheikh Mahir Hamoud, orator of Al Quds Mosque in
Sidon referred to the domestic crisis of the US and said,” A country that tried
to dominate the whole world is at the danger of collapse though its damages
will not suffice to an economic one but will lead to a cultural collapse of the
country soon.” (He may well be right. The cultural collapse has been
underway since Woodstock
Tommy Robinson, Kevin
Carroll, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer breaking with EDL
Excerpt: Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll are announcing
their departure from the English Defence League. This move has come after many
months of deliberation and many years of constant efforts by Robinson and
Carroll to prevent the EDL from being infiltrated and co-opted by racists,
anti-Semites, fascists, neo-Nazis, and far-right elements.
Excerpt: A spokesman for the Kenya Defense Forces has
identified four terrorists who took part in the deadly Nairobi Sudan ; Omar Nabhan, from Kenya
Amputee Dancers
You can't overcome your challenges? ~Bob
Just 17% of
Government Actually Shut Down
Just the parts that piss people off. ~Bob
62% Think U.S.
Excerpt: Americans are more fearful of another economic
meltdown these days, and belief that the U.S.
Let's Have a
Government Sale
Excerpt: Our government is so big that the nearly 3
million government employees should be their own state. The population of
government employees is already larger than the populations of Rhode Island , Wyoming , Delaware , Alaska , Montana , North and South Dakota ,
New Hampshire , Maine ,
Hawaii , Idaho ,
West Virginia , Nebraska
and New Mexico
Truckers Ride for the Constitution to Shutdown D.C.
Excerpt: This weekend, October
11 – 13, Truckers Ride for the Constitution plan
on driving into Washington ,
D.C. America
Illinois Governor Issues Administrative
Order Banning Employers Asking Job Applicants About Felonies
Asking about felonies discriminates against the Democrats'
base. ~Bob
SHUTDOWN: "No
Catholic Service Until Further Notice" By Christine Rouselle
Excerpt: I reported on Saturday that
military contract priests were forbidden from celebrating Mass due to the
government shutdown, even if they wanted to volunteer and do it for free.
Catholics are religiously obligated to
attend Mass on Sunday. The Catholics at the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay
in Georgia, however, were unable to meet this obligation as the government
decided to cancel Mass. (They
should say it's a mass for illegal immigrants. Obama would open it right up.
~Bob)
CHART: Dysfunctional
government surpasses economy as top U.S.
Excerpt: Americans are now more likely to name dysfunctional
government as the most important problem facing the country than to name any
other specific problem. Thirty-three percent of Americans cite dissatisfaction
with government and elected representatives as the nation's top issue, the
highest such percentage in Gallup
Obama's Hometown Gov
Dumps Part-Time Employees Into Obamacare. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: If you’re a local government and you don’t want to
cover health care for your part timers, there’s always the signature legislative achievement of
Barack Obama to toss them into. "Part-time government employees working
for Cook County , Illinois
OCCUPY AMERICA
Excerpt: Across the country, ordinary Americans are rising
up in revolt against the old Washington
Let's hear it for the
Yellowstone Park
Excerpt: "They looked like Hulk Hogans, armed. They
told us you can't go outside," she said. "Some of the Asians who were
on the tour said, 'Oh my God, are we under arrest?' They felt like they were
criminals."
Paul Ryan Assures
Conservatives He is Not Backing Down on Obamacare. By Conn
Excerpt: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI)
has an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal titled, "Here's How We Can End
This Stalemate," mapping out a reasonable sounding path to solving
Washington's current fiscal impasse. "We have an opportunity here to pay
down the national debt and jump-start the economy," Ryan writes, "if
we start talking, and talking specifics, now." But while Ryan's op-ed does
mention the need to cut spending, reform entitlements, and simplify the tax
code, at no point does it mention Obamacare.
Excerpt: A "Palestinian" doctor and a Canadian
"filmmaker" travel to ultra-violent Cairo
Almost half a billion
for public broadcasting, but nothing for families of fallen troops. By Thomas
Lifson
Excerpt: That means PBS NewsHour, National Public Radio and Sesame Street
The
Impoverishment of American Conversation. By Jeremy Egerer
Excerpt:
The idea that man is entitled to pride in his political, religious, and social
opinions, that he may somehow behave in the way he behaves, but that he may not
speak of it, or, if he does speak of it, should always be respected for it,
implies that we believe speaking to be more offensive thandoing.
For a man will always behave a certain way whether he speaks about it or not;
by his silence, he never implies inaction. And as the democratic tendencies of
any situation increase, so does his enforcement of his opinion; if ideas are
impersonal (that is to say, not exclusive to a single person), they are most
impersonal in a democratic society, and thus should be spoken openly.
Parasitocracy. By
Daren Jonescu
Excerpt: Excerpt:
Tyranny, being as endemic to the human condition as other similar privations of the human
good such as ignorance, vice, or sickness, is as old as mankind. What may be
new, however, is the uniquely intractable form of tyranny that is currently
metastasizing throughout the world, namely the rule of an authoritarian
plurality of societal parasites. Our next thousand years of darkness, if such
be our fate, will begin under the governance of a "parasitocracy."
... What is essential is the parasite's presumption that the
productivity of others -- their toil, time, and achievement -- ought to be at
his or her disposal.
Dem. Congressman
Bemoans Shutdown’s Effects: We Don’t Have Any Towels In The House Gym!
The horror! This has gone too far. ~Bob
Shutdown Simulacrum:
Just because it's a phony crisis doesn't mean it can't be made even phonier. By
Mark Steyn
Excerpt: “Mandatory spending” (Social Security, Medicare, et
al.) is authorized in perpetuity — or, at any rate, until total societal
collapse. If you throw in the interest payments on the debt, that means
two-thirds of the federal budget is beyond the control of Congress’s so-called
federal budget process. That’s why you’re reading government “shutdown” stories
about the PandaCam at the Washington Zoo and the First Lady’s ghost-Tweeters
being furloughed.
Kenyan Parliament
Re-Thinking Somali Immigration After Bloody Mall Carnage. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: It’s something that we should be thinking seriously
about as well. We’ve already had a major Somali attempted terror attack here.
That one was intercepted and prevented, but we can only get lucky so many times
before we have our own Westgate.
ACLU, Freedom from Religion Foundation Loot
School
Excerpt: These days exercising the natural right to
religious freedom as protected by the Constitution by resisting the liberal
campaign to erase all traces of Christianity doesn’t come cheap: An Ohio school district has agreed to
keep a portrait of Jesus Christ off school property and pay a $95,000 fine in
the face of legal pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Grover Norquist
discredits himself attacking Ted Cruz. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Grover Norquist, the Ikhwan’s man in the Republican
Party, has to maintain his brand as a conservative, even if that brand makes no
sense at all.Norquist is for amnesty, against fighting terrorists and against
Ted Cruz. And he’s for a laughable effort to cut a deal with Obama. This time
around he’s demanding that Ted Cruz “apologize” to House
Republicans for not having a viable strategy.
Allen West:
"Captured terrorist should be heading to GITMO." By Kevin Derby
Excerpt: Former U.S. Rep. Allen West weighed in on
Monday on the capture of Abu Anas al Libi, the al-Qaida leader captured by
American military forces in recent days for his role in planning terrorist
attacks in Africa . West expressed strong disapproval
of plans to try al Libi as a criminal and insisted he should be held as a
prisoner of war at Guantanamo
Bay
Allen West endorses 4
Conservative Republican candidates. By Kevin Derby
Excerpt: Former U.S. Rep. Allen West, who has opened the
door to a political comeback in 2016, offered a round of endorsements to
Republicans across the country on Wednesday. The Allen West Guardian Fund
PAC endorsed U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who is running against U.S. Sen.
Mark Pryor, D-Ark., in 2014. West also backed Republican congressional candidates
Mia Love, who is angling for a rematch against U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah,
and Don Bogino who is looking to challenge U.S. Rep. John Delaney, D-Md.
Hagel accepts private
offer to pay families of KIA; says he's 'offended, outraged' at Congress.
By Bridget Johnson
Excerpt: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel accepted a private
foundation’s offer to help cover the death gratuity payments for families of
fallen soldiers while deflecting all blame from his department or the administration
for stopping the payments in the first place.
Mitt Romney looks
more presidential than the president, urging Obama to end his 'campaigning
and posturing.' By Nile Gardiner
Excerpt: A remarkably humble man despite his considerable
personal wealth, Romney is the first to admit that he made a number of mistakes
during his campaign, and said some things he later regretted. But in his
interview with Hannity he looked presidential and self-assured, projecting the
kind of leadership that is sorely lacking in the White House today.
The British
government's shameful press regulation plans remind me of my childhood -- in
Idi Amin's Uganda
Excerpt: At the precise moment that the internet
democratises communication and opens political campaigning up to everyone,
along comes a new law that will try to subject all political activism to a
system of state compliance. While the boundaries between formal and
informal political players are being blurred, incredulously a minister
justified this Bill by telling me that politics is properly the preserve
of the established political parties. This is not going to work.
Identified: Memorial
Militia lawn-mowing volunteer cuts Lincoln
Excerpt: Chris Cox, the one-man landscaping crew, calls
himself the Memorial Militia. He told a Washington ,
D.C.
Million Vet March on
Memorials: National Mall, Washington
D.C.
Excerpt: Dissatisfaction with Obama’s regime has been
picking up steam, and seems ready to come to a boil as soon
as this Sunday: The
Million Vet March on the Memorials will be held Sunday,
Oct. 13, at 9 a.m. Eastern at the World War II memorial on the
National Mall, the location where rangers under orders from the White House
tried, unsuccessfully, to prevent vets from visiting in recent days. The
announcement said the group Special Operations Speaks is organizing the rally
because the Obama administration “is using the government shutdown as an
excuse to keep our veterans from acknowledging the debt owed to them and their
predecessors.”
Harry Reid
Considering Using "Nuclear Option" to Pass Clean Debt Hike Limit.
Excerpt: Wouldn't surprise me. Via Politico: Senate Democratic leaders are actively
considering invoking the “nuclear option” to gut the filibuster if Republican
senators block a year-long increase of the debt limit, according to several
sources familiar with the matter. The highly controversial move would allow
Senate Democrats to pass a debt limit hike through 2014 with just 51 Democratic
votes, rather than the 60 that would ordinarily be required to overcome a
filibuster.
Gross: U.S.
Excerpt: Along with being the worst built website in
history, Healthcare.gov also appears to be the most expensive, and we get
stuck with the bill. How lovely.
Excerpt: Over the years, James Woods has given various hints
that he’s not a liberal. But it wasn’t until he joined Twitter that he leaped
right out of the conservative closet. He’s sick of what the Obama
administration and its lackeys are doing to this beautiful country, and he’s
not afraid to say so.
Old Blues Eyes Is
Back! Mia Farrow & 8 of Her Children Speak Out About Their Lives,
Frank Sinatra and the Scandals.
Excerpt: Farrow discusses her relationship with Frank
Sinatra, telling Orth that Sinatra was the great love of her life, and says,
“We never really split up.” When asked point-blank if her biological son with
Woody Allen, Ronan Farrow, may actually be the son of Frank Sinatra, Farrow
answers, “Possibly.” [Scroll down to the bottom of article for photograph of
Ronan Farrow.]
VIDEO: Harvard
Physicist, Running for Congress, Criticizes "Global Warming
Hysteria." Charles C. Johnson
Excerpt: Stopa isn’t alone in criticizing
the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change's science. A top MIT climate
scientist called the latest IPCC report
“hilarious.”
Wolf Blitzer:
"Maybe the GOP's right that Democrats should delay Obamacare for a
year."
Excerpt: If you say something like this on MSNBC, a gong
sounds and a trapdoor opens beneath your feet. The clip picks up with Blitzer
but what the other guy said immediately before this is worth noting too:
Quote
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and
then say, what should be the reward of such sacrifices? Bid us and our
posterity to bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plow, sow and reap to
glut the avarice of men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our
blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude more than the animating contest of
freedom-go from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or arms. Crouch down and
lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams
Media: Michelle
Bachmann Can Be a Slut As Long As Hillary Is a Saint
Excerpt: On the anti-Hillary buttons was written: “KFC Hillary special: two fat thighs, two small breasts, one left wing…” The SNL skit had Miley Cyrus act as Michelle Bachmann, twerking and behaving inappropriately. Basically, Miley played Bachmann as supremely slutty. Both the buttons and the SNL skit could be considered offensive to women, but guess which one over which the Huffington Post blew a gasket. If you guessed Bachmann, you must live underground. It was Hillary. (How's this for "hate" ? Typical Hufpo and liberal hate. One was just a button at a localized function, the other a nationwide broadcast. Despicable! --JB)
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