Reminder: The Philosophy of the Old Jarhead Blog
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Russia ?
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me by readers, for which I’m grateful, others come from newsfeeds I subscribe
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there. I stop sending the link to people who become nasty or too angry. I used
to forward political items, but was sending too many e-mails to my list, so a
few years ago, I started collecting them on the blog to access in one place. I
use maybe 50% of the conservative pieces sent me, probably less than 5% of the
liberal opinion sent, usually to illustrate their views. Readers who don’t like
that are welcome to start their own blogs. Blogs are free and so is speech in America
right now, despite leftist efforts to outlaw “hate speech” they disagree with
and Islamist efforts to outlaw criticism of Islam, while retaining the right to
describe other religions in vile terms. I try to avoid items that will turn off
thoughtful centrists and leftists or low-information independents, including
“red meat” pieces with intemperate language or wild speculation, conspiracy
theories with no supporting facts and silly distractions like the so-called
“birther” issue (but I don’t always succeed). I predicted correctly five years
ago the “birther” thing was going nowhere, was a huge waste of time and
resources, and played into the hands of the left, much as the impeachment of
Bill Clinton did in the 1990s. (I said so at the time.) I do sometimes include
things I don’t agree with that I think readers might find of interest. Readers
are requested to read all items critically and with skepticism—just like a newspaper!
Readers who send formatted pieces (title, link, and a fair use excerpt of three
sentences unless the piece is very short. than fewer) to
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just send a link. I often include thoughtful comments from contributors. (Tell
me if you want you full name used.) A piece without a link has a much lower chance of being used—it
depends on how interesting it is and how much time I have right then to search
for it. I understand if you don’t have the time to format or even to find a
link—please understand my time is pretty limited too. There are no ads on my
blog, no fees and I receive no income from it. Now that I've retired, that
might need to change, but for now, that’s how it is. I do promote my books,
with the royalties going to charity. Thanks for reading and contributing. ~Bob.
Jon Stewart mocks
Obama for ignorance on NSA spying, health care rollout
Too funny. ~Bob
First on CNN: Obama
administration warned about health care website
Excerpt: The Obama administration was given stark warnings
just one month before launch that the federal healthcare site was not ready to
go live, according to a confidential report obtained by CNN. The caution, from
the main contractor CGI, warned of a number of open risks and issues for
the HealthCare.gov web
site even as company executives were testifying publicly that the project had
achieved key milestones.
Obama accused of
breaking promise to consumers as health plans cancel policies
Excerpt: A new controversy over the president’s health-care
law is threatening to overshadow the messy launch of its Web site: Notices are
going out to hundreds of thousands of Americans informing them that their
health insurance policies are being canceled as of Dec. 31. The notices appear
to contradict President Obama’s promise that despite the changes resulting from
the law, Americans can keep their health insurance if they like it. (He
knew it was a lie when he said it, but without the lie, the law would not have
passed. ~Bob)
Excerpt: New York
doctors are treating ObamaCare like the plague, a new survey reveals. A poll
conducted by the New York State Medical Society finds that 44 percent of MDs
said they are not participating in the nation’s new health-care plan. Another
33 percent say they’re still not sure whether to become ObamaCare providers.
Obama Lied, Healthcare Coverage Died. By Matthew Vadum
Excerpt: Although federal officials have known for at least
three years that Obamacare would cause millions of Americans to lose health
insurance coverage, that didn’t stop President Obama from lying repeatedly,
reassuring voters the law would not adversely impact their existing coverage. In
an uncharacteristically media-savvy move aimed at capitalizing on current
affairs, Republicans compiled a list of 13 Democrats –including Senate
Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.)– who deceived
voters by obediently repeating Obama’s lies.
The Thuggery of Obamacare Czarina Kathleen Sebelius.
By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: Three years ago, when insurers and other companies
had the audacity to expose Obamacare’s damage to their customers and workers,
Sebelius brought out her brass knuckles. Remember? As I reported at the time,
the White House coordinated a demonization campaign against Anthem Blue Cross
in California
for raising rates because of the new mandate’s costs. Obama singled out the
company in a “60 Minutes” interview, and Sebelius sent a nasty-gram demanding
that Anthem “justify” its rate hikes to the federal government.
As Americans lose
coverage, Democrats say Obama too rosy about health care law
Excerpt: As millions of people receive
notices that their health insurance is being canceled, the White House said Tuesday that President
Obama didn’t mislead the public when he repeatedly and emphatically promised that
everyone could keep their plan under Obamacare.
NBC Accidently Discovers Obamacare’s Asterisk. By Michael Schaus
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelschaus/2013/10/30/nbc-accidently-discovers-obamacares-asterisk-n1733200?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelschaus/2013/10/30/nbc-accidently-discovers-obamacares-asterisk-n1733200?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Excerpt: Wow. . . NBC stumbled into
a moment of actual journalism:
A woman in Florida
was recently given some news, which according to the President, was impossible.
Despite being responsible enough to have healthcare coverage, her plan did not
meet the minimum requirement under the Affordable Care Act; and was therefore cancelled. Maybe
her plan didn’t include the appropriate amount of Sandra Fluke-approved
contraception coverage? Lucky for her the insurance company gave her the
option of upgrading to the “new and improved” plan that meets the minimum
requirements under Obama’s signature law. . . At a 1,000 percent price hike.
19 Obama Lies
Excerpt: Here are 19 times that Barack Obama promised lower
health insurance premiums. He lied.
Excerpt: On Monday I proposed a
simple solution to the problems of the ObamaCare website: the John
McCain health plan. Paul
Krugman has a different solution: enroll everyone on Medicare: "Imagine,
now, a much simpler system in which the government just pays your major medical
expenses. In this hypothetical system you wouldn’t have to shop for insurance,
nor would you have to provide lots of personal details. The government would be
your insurer, and you’d be covered automatically by virtue of being an
American. Of course, we don’t have to imagine such a system, because it already
exists. It’s called Medicare, it covers all Americans 65 and older, and it’s
enormously popular. So why didn’t we just extend that system to cover everyone?
"Here’s the answer I gave in a previous
post: There is not a single major problem in ObamaCare that would be
solved by moving everyone into Medicare. And any minor problems that might
be improved by universal Medicare could have been easily solved by tweaks to
ObamaCare as well.
Sad but true: Throw the Rascals Out?: Part II. By
Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: The public's opinion of politicians of both parties
seems to have reached a new low. But no matter how much the voters detest
Congress — or how justifiably — that does not mean that there will be radical
changes at the next election. For one thing, "Congress" is not on the
ballot. Only individual members of Congress are. Most voters like their own
Senator or Representative, often because of special favors that these
incumbents have done for their own constituency — at the taxpayers' expense.
Democrats: The
Gullible Party? By Jon Gabriel
Excerpt: So how did the unsophisticated conservative rubes
have Obamacare figured out from the start while our lettered elites fell for it
hook, line and sinker? Many Tea Partiers don’t even carry a professional
suffix, yet knew that the scheme would cost most people more money while
providing worse care. To put it kindly, the pundits, pols and reporters taken
in by the Obamacare confidence game should be laughed out of polite society.
These left-leaning men and women consider themselves to be highly
sophisticated, abnormally intelligent and preternaturally discerning. Yet they
trusted a man who hadn't even run a 7-11 to remake the U.S. healthcare system from
scratch.
Taxpayer funding for
‘climate change’ twice that of border security
Excerpt: The liberal phantom menace of global warming gets
more than twice as much federal money as cracking down on the very real menace
of failing to secure the United
States ’ borders, the Daily Caller reported
Tuesday.
Video evidence Obama is related to Sgt. Schultz. By Michele
Hickford
Excerpt: Here, from MSNBC’s Morning Joe, is a montage of the
many things Obama claims to have known nothing about, including Operation Fast
and Furious, the Internal Revenue Service’s extra scrutiny of conservative
groups, Department of Justice subpoenas of Associated Press records, Solyndra,
and of course the train wreck that is Obamacare.
Who Really Employs
Minimum Wage Workers?
Excerpt: The only thing standing between minimum wage
employees and a generous salary with paid time off is the greed of the large
corporations they work for. That's the argument voters in SeaTac, Wash., will
consider Nov. 5 when they vote on a referendum to create a $15 minimum
wage-more than twice the federal minimum of $7.25. This
corporations-can-afford-it narrative isn't confined to the Pacific
Northwest . Earlier this year, groups like Fast Food Forward,
backed by the Service Employees International Union, organized walk outs at
large restaurants in major cities and presented the same $15 demand, arguing
that "it's time for these big fast-food and retail companies to pay
up." It's a clever talking point designed to shift the focus from the size
of the wage mandate to the size of the employer. But it doesn't square with the
facts. ... Roughly half the minimum-wage workforce is employed at businesses
with fewer than 100 employees, and 40% are at very small businesses with fewer
than 50 employees. The results are similar even if you follow the left's cue
and broaden the analysis from minimum wage employees earning $7.25 an hour to
"low-wage" employees earning $10 an hour or less: 46% still work for
businesses with 100 or fewer employees.
Racism from the WaPo? Controversies show how Obama’s
inattention to detail may hurt his presidential legacy
Excerpt: Nearly a year into his second term, President Obama
has yet to master the management of information within his administration. That
failure has left him knowing too little at times about the issues that matter the most to his legacy. Obama, who like many presidents
had no executive experience before taking office, has never pretended to care
much about the details of governing. He prefers the big speech to congressional
arm-twisting, the big reform to incremental change and
the big foreign policy ambition to cultivating
head-of-state relationships.
Excerpt: Five prisoners were released in Gaza ,
while the other 21 were sent to the West Bank .
Those freed were all convicted of murders and had spent between 19 and 28 years
in prison. (I would have released them right after trail...to the morgue. ~Bob)
DHS and More Benghazi
Excerpt: While Americans stubbornly refuse to allow the
regime’s cover-up of the Benghazi catastrophe to
fade from public consciousness, FOX News has discovered that the
Department of Homeland Security is “quietly considering lifting a long-standing
ban on Libyans coming to the U.S.
for training in the aviation and nuclear fields. (Isn't giving aid and comfort
to the enemy called treason and an impeachable offense? --JB)
Spying Known at Top
Levels, Officials Say
Excerpt: The nation’s top
spymaster said on Tuesday that the White House had long been aware in general
terms of the National Security Agency’s overseas
eavesdropping, stoutly defending the agency’s intelligence-gathering methods
and suggesting possible divisions within the Obama administration.
Excerpt: Obama has claimed that the United States
is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” While the actual number
of Muslims is in dispute, Islamerica is no match for Eurabia or Eurasia . Europe has 44 million
Muslims. If Turkey
crawls into the European Union, that number will climb to 118 million. That’s
more than double the number of Latinos in America .
For Obama, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure. By Bruce Thornton
Excerpt: In any other administration, even without
Obamacare, the litany of scandal and bungling would have politically crippled
not just Obama but the Democrats as well. The murderous gunrunning of the Fast
and Furious debacle, Attorney General Eric Holder turning the Justice
Department into the Democrats’ Luca Brasi, the out-of-control EPA waging its
economy-killing war on carbon, the National Labor Relations Board unleashed to
browbeat business and revive a moribund labor movement, the SEC shaking down
banks for billions, the IRS targeting political opponents, the trillion-dollar
“stimulus” spent to achieve the worst economic recovery in history, the
trillions more borrowed and created out of thin air to finance entitlement
spending and payoffs to political cronies––and that’s just domestic policy.
EU Unveils Crackdown on Free Speech. By Bruce Bawer
Excerpt: Now the European Council on Tolerance and
Reconciliation (ECTR), founded in 2008 and consisting largely of former
European presidents or prime ministers, has issued a report whose thrust
is – and I quote – that there’s “no need to be tolerant to the
intolerant.”
Obama's 'Transformed'
America
Excerpt: I did not like the presidencies of Jimmy Carter
(the last Democrat I voted for) or Bill Clinton. Nor did I care for the
"compassionate conservatism" of George W. Bush. In modern political
parlance "compassionate" is a euphemism for ever-expanding
government. But I have never written or broadcast that our country was being
seriously damaged by a president. So it is with great sadness that I write that
President Obama has done and continues to do major damage to America . The
only question is whether this can ever be undone. (OK, Prager is a solid guy
with facts and logic, and his comments here are, sadly, right on point. There's
nothing I can add to that, other than we have to pray, and pray hard, that next
year we can change the makeup of Congress to where they will be able to start
blocking the creation of more damage. And just maybe start making a few
repairs. Heaven help us. --Del )
In the case of a Kentucky hooch
heist, not even local educators are beyond suspicion. A Kentucky high school principal is cooperating with authorities after he was named a person of
interest in the theft of $26,000 worth of rare bourbon, WDRB.com reported. Chris
Pickett, the principal of Bardstown High School
Association of Space
Explorers Calls for Global Cooperation to Confront Asteroid Threats
Excerpt: At a public event at New York 's
American Museum
Barack Obama, Our
Know-Nothing President
Excerpt: In recent days, President Obama has claimed
ignorance about spying on allies and the ObamaCare meltdown. How can it be this
president is always the last to know whenever anything goes wrong in his
administration? Even though the NSA tapped the phones of German Chancellor
Angela Merkel some time ago, President Obama claims he didn't know anything
about it until after an internal review he ordered earlier this year. Why
should he? After all, "the president doesn't sign off on this stuff,"
one official said. (Gee, it used to be that "the buck stops on this
desk" as Harry Truman would say it. Either Mr. Obama is utterly
incompetent as a Chief Executive, or he lies like a rug. And a combination
of both cannot be ruled out. --Del )
Imam In Tennessee,
‘Jews And Christians Are Filthy, Their Property Belongs To The Muslim’
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2013/07/03/imam-in-tennessee-jews-and-christians-are-filthy-their-property-belongs-to-the-muslim/
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2013/07/03/imam-in-tennessee-jews-and-christians-are-filthy-their-property-belongs-to-the-muslim/
Excerpt: US based Imam, Yasir Qadhi preaches openly that non
muslims lives are forfeit and their property is legal for muslims to take in
jihad, (and this would include women as sex slaves) yet no charges are brought
against him.
'Puppy Bombs' Rescued
from Egyptian Violence
Excerpt: Two puppies from Egypt were rescued just moments
before they were to be used by the Muslim Brotherhood in their protests as
"puppy bombs" dipped in gasoline and set on fire.
But accidently burn a Qur'an...Bob
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html Excerpt: The National Security
Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect
Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained
from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable
officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect
at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them
belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it
keeps a lot.
Interesting from the left: A brief note on why the
progressive blog movement failed. By Ian Welsh
Excerpt: After 2008 everyone knew that they didn’t need
prog-bloggers and that they didn’t really need to fear bloggers. (They may be
annoyed by “Firebaggers”, they do not fear them.)
Unlike the Tea Party, most left wingers don’t really believe
their own ideology. They put partisanship first, or they put the color of a
candidate’s skin or the shape of their genitals over the candidate’s policy. Identity
is more important to them than how many brown children that politician is
killing.
Excerpt: It stretches credulity to think that the U.S. was spying
on world leaders without the president's knowledge, or that he was blissfully
unaware of huge technical problems that threatened to undermine his main
legislative achievement. But on issues including the IRS targeting flap and the
Justice Department's use of subpoenas against reporters, White House officials
have frequently given a variation on this theme.
Explosive
New Report -- Obama Knew Benghazi
Excerpt:
You have to give it to CBS. On Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi
Obamacation: Death Panels are Still Going
Live
http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/10/obamacation-death-panels-still-going-live/
http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/10/obamacation-death-panels-still-going-live/
Excerpt:
Freshmen and sophomores in a social studies class at St. Joseph-Ogden High
School in Illinois
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