Blog Down? If you get this notice, it means Google has
logged me out of G-mail and, in what I'm sure they call another improvement,
blocked access to my blog until I get on the computer and log back in. And, BTW
G-mail's new compose window and hard-to-read CAPTCHA still suck. Sorry. ~Bob
Supreme Court to
review contraceptive coverage mandate
Excerpt: The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider a new
challenge to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act
and decide whether employers with religious objections may refuse to provide
their workers with mandated insurance coverage of contraceptives. The cases accepted by the court offer complex questions about
religious freedom and equality for female workers along with an issue the court
has not yet confronted: whether a secular, for-profit corporation is protected
by the Constitution or federal statute from complying with a law because of its
owners religious beliefs.
Another Way Taxpayers Lose Under Obamacare. By Bob Graboyes
Excerpt: State insurance commissioners have long seen
themselves as protectors of the public's wallets – the officials who say
"no" to insurers' requests to increase health insurance premiums. It
has not yet sunk in that on this coming New Year's Day, the Affordable Care Act
will flip the commissioners' motives upside-down, prompting them to approve and
even encourage premium increases.
Excerpt: No one has the right to sacrifice your life to save
someone else's life. No one has the right to harm your family to help someone
else's family. That's a bedrock principle in America . Until Obamacare. The
Democrats want a different America .
In the new America ,
you are expendable.
HealthCare.gov won't
be perfect on Dec. 1, administration says
Excerpt: Administration officials said Monday that some
visitors to ObamaCare's federal enrollment site would experience outages, slow
response times or messages to try again later during the month of
December. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) delivered
the message in the latest attempt to downplay expectations surrounding Nov. 30,
the administration's self-imposed deadline for fixing HealthCare.gov.
Excerpt: In Oregon ,
Obamacare is being called an "epic
failure" by lawmakers as the state-based exchange continues to fail.
It's been nearly two months since the pro-Obamacare state launched their state
based exchange site on October 1 and not a single person has been able to sign
up. Things have gotten so bad, paper applications and fax
machines were brought in to help expedite the process (yes,
you read that correctly).
Excerpt: Flash-forward to today — and flash-forward to the eight minute mark of this video, taken from today’s
edition of The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV, or simply click on
the version below, which is queued up to the point at which Mark Halperin
of Time magazine admits…The Affordable Care Act contains provisions
for “death panels,” which decide which critically-ill patients receive care and
which won’t, according to Mark Halperin, senior political analyst for Time
magazine. “It’s built into the plan.”
Democrats Fear
Obamacare Will Cost Them The Senate
Excerpt: Last week, President Obama's pollster Joel
Benenson sent a memo to
congressional Democrats encouraging them to refocus attention on the economy
and ignore the health care chaos that has consumed the administration for the
last two months. The three-page set of talking points argued that the media's relentless
focus on the Obamacare website is a "distraction" from more important
work on the minds of voters. But for Senate Democrats who backed the unpopular
legislation, avoiding the subject isn't so easy. (Oh, yes, pivot to the
wonderful economy, with well over 20% of the population unemployed,
under-employed or having given up looking. ~Bob)
Too
True: Women in Ground Combat - Clarity in an
Evening. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
As the evening wore on and wine bottles emptied, conversation shifted to
politics and more. I was not interested in wading into that swamp - especially
with folks who had consumed beyond the legal limit and were still drinking.
Football versus War. By Robert A. Hall
Excerpt: An NFL team carries 53 players on it's roster,
slightly larger than an infantry platoon in the Marines or Army (if memory
serves). So lets compare a platoon in combat to a football game.
Excerpt: Many people take pride in defying the conventions
of society. Those conventions of society are also known as civilization.
Defying them wholesale means going back to barbarism. Barbarians with
electronic devices are still barbarians. (Yes, the "Random Thoughts"
column I usually send every month was partly inspired by Dr. Sowell's Random Thoughts
columns. [Also Dunk's Almanac and the
Notebooks of Lazarus Long.] Yes, all
three are better than mine, I say objectively, not modestly. ~Bob.
Update: Angola Denies It Banned Islam,
Destroyed Mosques
Excerpt: Angola
became a hot topic in the international media over the weekend, as news outlets
around the world wrote about reports that the Southwest African nation had
banned Islam and had begun to dismantle mosques. But an official at the Angolan Embassy in Washington , D.C. ,
who did not want to be identified while discussing the sensitive matter, said
that there is no such ban and that the reports are erroneous.
Excerpt: The final details of a nuclear agreement signed
over the weekend between Iran
and Western nations will not actually go into effect until further negotiations
take place at a later date, according to a senior administration official and
sources on Capitol Hill. (Meanwhile...~Bob)
True: Hezbollah Says Nuclear Deal a Victory for Iran
Excerpt: Lebanon ’s
Hezbollah on Monday hailed a nuclear deal between its patron Iran and world powers as “a major victory” for Tehran . (You remember
Hezbollah? They are the group that temporarily gave up shelling Israel to fight to help Assad in Syria
against the al Qaeda-backed rebels we are helping. It's complicated. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Iranian officials say that the White House is
misleading the public about the details of an interim nuclear agreement reached
over the weekend in Geneva .
Abject Surrender by the United States
Excerpt:
Iran retains its full capacity to enrich
uranium, thus abandoning a decade of Western insistence and Security Council
resolutions that Iran stop all uranium-enrichment
activities. Allowing Iran to
continue enriching, and despite modest (indeed, utterly inadequate) measures to
prevent it from increasing its enriched-uranium stockpiles and its overall
nuclear infrastructure, lays the predicate for Iran fully enjoying its “right” to
enrichment in any “final” agreement. Indeed, the interim agreement itself
acknowledges that a “comprehensive solution” will “involve a mutually defined
enrichment program.”
Fears Over Iranian
Deal Hasten New Regional Alliances. By Paul Alster
Excerpt: But what is it in the P5+1 deal with Iran that the
Israelis, the Saudis, and other Sunni states in the region find hard to
swallow?
Bringing home Dad
Excerpt: My father was last seen March 9, 2007, on Kish Island , Iran , but he is not a missing
person. Our family received a hostage
video three years ago and photographs in 2011. In the video — in which
he appears frail and visibly thinner than the 220 pounds he weighed when he was
taken — my dad pleads for the U.S. government to help secure his release. In
the photos, which were e-mailed to us, he is shackled. He has an unkempt beard
and holds cryptic messages, the intended meaning of which we still do not
understand.
Green Energy Is the
Real Subsidy Hog
Excerpt: Renewables receive three times as much money per
energy unit as fossil fuels, says Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center .
For 20 years the world has tried subsidizing green technology instead of
focusing on making it more efficient. Today Spain spends about 1 percent of
gross domestic product throwing money at green energy such as solar and wind
power. The $11 billion a year is more than Spain spends on higher education. At
the end of the century, with current commitments, these Spanish efforts will
have delayed the impact of global warming by roughly 61 hours, according to the
estimates of Yale
University 's
well-regarded Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy model. A myth about
fossil-fuel subsidies worth debunking is that the United States subsidizes fossil
fuels more heavily than green energy. Not so. The U.S. Energy Information Administration
estimated in 2010 that fossil-fuel subsidies amounted to $4 billion a year. Renewable
sources received more than triple that figure, roughly $14 billion.
Poor And Middle Class
Incomes Have Increased Significantly. By Scott Winship
Excerpt: The widely-cited Economic Policy Institute,
for instance, says median household income was just 5 percent higher in 2012
than in 1979 and that the poverty rate rose from 11.7 percent to 15.0
percent. Figures from the
Center on Budget and Policy Priority’s Jared Bernstein also show little to no
income growth for either the poor or the middle class. But these worrying
conclusions flow from problematic analyses. Contrary to conventional wisdom,
poor and middle class households are at least 30 percent richer today
than their counterparts from 35 years ago.
The New Segregation: Income is the new
boundary line in U.S.
neighborhoods, but money is not the answer. By Kevin D. Williamson
Excerpt: If you divided American families into six graduated
income groups — poor, low-income, lower-middle, upper-middle, high-income, and
affluent — and took a trip in time back to the Age of Disco, you’d find that
nearly two-thirds of all American families lived in neighborhoods with median
incomes in the middle two groups: lower-middle and upper-middle. Return to the
present day, and you’ll find that fewer than half of American
families live in middle-income neighborhoods. Progressives wringing their hands
over consistently misinterpreted income figures need not go so far as Wall
Street boardrooms for evidence of the economic inequality that troubles them so
— they need only look next door.
Serial killer Joseph
Paul Franklin executed in Missouri
Excerpt: Missouri
corrections officials have executed Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist
serial killer who targeted blacks and
Jews, including an interracial couple in Wisconsin . Franklin , an avowed white supremacist, was
convicted and sentenced to death for killing Gerald Gordon, 42, and wounding
two other men in a St. Louis-area synagogue parking lot in 1977. But he also
was linked to the deaths of at least 18 other people. (Good riddance. Been
happy to pull the switch myself. Those who say the death penalty only kills
blacks for killing whites take note. ~Bob.)
Car Crash Kills North Florida Tea Party Leader
Excerpt: Friends say Hunter was a Vietnam veteran
who later worked at defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Troopers say Hunter was
attempting to make a left turn on U.S. 441 and apparently did not see an
oncoming pickup truck, which struck Hunter's car on the driver's side. Hunter
was pronounced dead at the scene. The two occupants of the truck were
uninjured.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman
'in awe' of Israeli medics in Philippines
Excerpt: As we walked up to the tent where incoming
patients were being processed, I immediately saw the electronic medical
records technology that I had first seen in Haiti . Each patient’s medical
record is created using a photograph to ensure accurate identification. This is
especially important in these types of crisis situations. Language
barriers, loss of documentation and the fact that patients have arrived from
all over would result in a nightmare if the patients weren't properly
identified. Smart. Sophisticated. Secure. This was what I had experienced with
the IDF before. (They even do a fine job with medical records, without
HIPAA. Perhaps the Obama administration should look to little Israel for a
model. BTW, were the Iranians with their medical-enriched uranium anywhere to
be found? Cordially, Larry Greenberg. Charity is one of the Five Pillars
of Islam--but only for other Muslims. When the devastating floods ht Pakistan,
American aid was distributed to Muslims--but not to Christians, Hindus or even Ahmadiyya Muslims, a minority sect. See: http://www.news.va/en/news/asiapakistan-floods-in-sindh-aid-denied-to-christi
~Bob)
Old but true: Sale of Post office
Buildings
In 2011, the CB Richard Ellis Group (now CBRE Group, Inc.),
the world's largest commercial real estate services firm, was awarded an
exclusive contract to market USPS facilities which provides CBRE with a
commission of 2 to 6 percent on the sale of those properties. This award has
been the subject of some controversy, as CBRE's Chairman of the Board is Richard C. Blum, the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, who
represents the state of California
in the U.S. Senate.
Another Attack on
Christmas!
Excerpt: This year’s earliest
contender for “the Grinch that stole Christmas” is
the American Humanist Organization. A charter school in Colorado ,
the SkyView Academy , is being sued by the humanist
organization because of their decision to participate in Operation Christmas
Child, a ministry of Samartian’s Purse. Operation Christmas Child takes
shoeboxes filled with goodies (toys, school and toiletry supplies, and other
necessities) and hands them out to children living in poverty in third world
nations.
Ouch. The Prophet
Mohammed Castrates Europe
Excerpt: Is there a government in Europe
that hasn’t had its cojones removed by the Prophet Mohammed? The level of
appeasement across the pond – when it comes to Muslims and their
“sensibilities” — has moved way beyond chilling.
Bombshell Obama Vetting:
1979 Newspaper Article By Valerie Jarrett Father-In-Law Reveals Start Of Muslim
Purchase Of U.S.
Presidency
Interesting, but a huge stretch. I would not run, except
several things I thought fake, like Fast and Furious, turned out to be true.
~Bob. Excerpt: Lastly, it’s very important to note that the main source for the
article is Khalid Mansour, “the same lawyer who allegedly helped arrange for
the entrance of Barack Obama into Harvard
Law School
in 1988.” (Valerie Jarrett, by the way, was born in Iran.
Good Column: The War on Human Nature. For nations as for
individuals, pretending self-interest doesn’t exist is perilous. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: A therapeutic sense of self-sacrifice is fine in
the abstract, but in the concrete such magnanimity causes far more harm to the
innocent than does a realistic appraisal of self-interest and a tragic
acceptance of the flawed nature of man. The theme of the present administration
is that it possesses the wisdom and resources to know better what people should
do than they do themselves. From that premise arose most of catastrophes that
have befallen this administration.
King Gets An Earful
On Common Core. By Megin Delaney
Excerpt: Bearing signs reading “We are human, not machines,”
“Oust the King” and “End Fed Ed,” Binghamton area residents let state Education Commissioner
John King see — and hear — their discontent with Common Core state standards. “Tell
the assembly we’re coming for them. We’re coming for them, we’re angry and we
vote,” said Christina Bangel, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Owego-Apalachin Middle
School and mother of two third-grade students at Owego Elementary
School .
Common Core Obama’s
Means To ‘Fundamentally Transform’ America ’s Education System
Excerpt: Actually, Common Core supporters could be right in
one sense: Common Core is not so much about a nationalization of education as
it is part of a world-wide initiative that may ultimately serve to make
American values and practices secondary to global sharing. In 2004, Gates’
Microsoft Corporation signed a Cooperation Agreement with UNESCO to develop a “master
curriculum” which would include benchmarks and a testing program. …. The goal
is to create, through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) throughout
the globe, communities without borders, in a sense, so that all students around
the world are learning similar content and sharing knowledge. (Global
brainwashing by the Illuminati. You breed ‘em; they transform them…Barb)
NBC cancels Alec
Baldwin's show 'Up Late' following actor's homophobic outbursts
Excerpt: NBC's Alec Baldwin experiment is over 46 days after
it began. “We are jointly confirming that UP LATE will not continue on MSNBC,”
the network and actor's reps said in a joint statement to FOX411. MSNBC had
already suspended Alec Baldwin’s low-rated news
program last week following an alleged gay slur directed toward a photographer
outside his New York City
apartment earlier this month.
Excerpt: California Gov. Jerry Brown can not spend state
bond revenues on President Obama's signature transportation
project until the state can identify how they will pay for the entire $68
billion project, a California court ruled Monday. The decision
almost certainly spells death for the project. (Government should be ale to pay
for projects? Radical idea! ~Bob)
The Democratic Party vs. Barack Obama. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: When Obama decided to turn his campaign into a
permanent Super PAC, he was stabbing the Democratic Party in the back. But
he was doing it to them before they did it to him.
Free Syrian Army says
no ceasefire for Geneva
talks
Excerpt: The commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA)
said on Tuesday his group would shun a planned peace conference in Switzerland
in January and would pursue its fight to topple President Bashar al-Assad
regardless.
Iraq violence
continues with cops, soldiers and civilians killed
Muslims killing Muslims is hardly news. ~Bob
A Weak Agreement
Likely to Get Worse. By Mark Dubowitz, Orde Kittrie
Excerpt: The Geneva deal
agreed to Sunday by six major powers with Iran is a gamble on Western
optimism. While slightly rolling back Iranian nuclear capability, the agreement
greatly weakens Western economic sanctions. Iranian sanctions-busters will be
in position to exploit the changing market psychology and newly created
pathways to reap billions of additional dollars in economic relief beyond those
projected by the Obama administration. The Geneva deal's provisions are too weak to
prevent Iranian physicists from making further nuclear progress in several key
areas
Excerpt: President Obama’s credibility problem has battered his
approval ratings, complicated his relationship with foreign allies and harmed
his party’s prospects in next year’s midterm elections. But the decline in the
public’s opinion of his trustworthiness presents a particular set of challenges
for his diplomacy with Iran, highlighted this weekend by
an agreement that will temporarily freeze the country’s nuclear program in
exchange for limited sanctions relief.
Iranian government television reportedly broadcasted
anti-U.S. message after nuclear deal
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/25/iranian-government-television-reportedly-broadcasted-anti-u-s-message-after-nuclear-deal/#ixzz2ljkGqa7i
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/25/iranian-government-television-reportedly-broadcasted-anti-u-s-message-after-nuclear-deal/#ixzz2ljkGqa7i
Excerpt: Iran’s government television network reportedly broadcast footage of an anti-American
celebration and the message “Down with America” while covering its Foreign
Minister Javad Zarif’s return to Tehran after brokering a nuclear-containment
deal with the United States and other countries in Geneva…. he Daily
Caller reported Monday that Iran’s supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, celebrated the deal and praised his nation’s ability to
legitimize its nuclear program.
Obama Betrays
American Pastor Tortured By Iran
Excerpt: President Obama had a choice. He could either
stand with the Islamic Republic of Iran or he could stand with Saeed Abedini,
the American Christian pastor they are currently torturing.
Wife of imprisoned
pastor says family devastated after Iran deal fails to secure his
release
Excerpt: The wife of imprisoned American pastor Saeed
Abedini says she and her family are devastated after learning that the Obama
administration did not try to secure the release of her husband as part of the
newly signed deal on Iran 's
nuclear program.
Israeli forces kill
at least 3 Salafi jihadists near Hebron
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/11/israeli_forces_kill_at_least_t.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/11/israeli_forces_kill_at_least_t.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
Excerpt: At least three Salafi jihadists were killed during
clashes this evening with Israeli forces in the Hebron area. The Salafi jihadists were part
of a cell that has been preparing to carry out a series of attacks against
Israeli targets and the Palestinian Authority in the "coming days,"
an IDF spokesperson told The Long
War Journal.
Worth Reading :
The World of English Freedoms: It's no accident that the
English-speaking nations are the ones most devoted to law and individual
rights. By Daniel Hannan
Excerpt: British exceptionalism, like its American cousin,
has traditionally been held to reside in a series of values and institutions:
personal liberty, free contract, jury trials, uncensored newspapers, regular
elections, habeas corpus, open competition, secure property, religious
pluralism. The conceit of our era is to assume that these ideals are somehow
the natural condition of an advanced society—that all nations will get around
to them once they become rich enough and educated enough. In fact, these ideals
were developed overwhelmingly in the language in which you are reading these
words. You don't have to go back very far to find a time when freedom under the
law was more or less confined to the Anglosphere: the community of
English-speaking democracies. (You may have to Google the title. ~Bob)
The Sides Are Forming
for the Coming Civil War
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/11/25/the-sides-are-forming-for-the-coming-civil-war/
Excerpt: What is going on today inAmerica is all about choosing
sides. There are clear lines being formed in the United States . The recruiting pool
consists of the Department of Homeland Security, the American military, local
law enforcement, ... (A group that has been left out of the article - Vietnam
Vets -- Left out because the majority have already decided and will honor their
oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign or domestic, or
left out because in the grand scheme of things they are considered unimportant?
MM. I don't expect a classic civil war, with two sides. I expect collapse, with
local warlords, roving gangs, crime, violence, death and chaos, with decent
folks trying, and often failing, to survive. ~Bob)
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/11/25/the-sides-are-forming-for-the-coming-civil-war/
Excerpt: What is going on today in
Excerpt: Do you
all recall a time three years ago when Obama tried to pass the Cap and Trade
bill? That was the bill that pretty much banned the use of coal based energy,
imposed an energy surtax on every phase of manufacturing and would have tripled
your home energy bills. Both Democrats and Republicans refused to support such
a bill, citing the massive inflation that would be infused into every product
and service, and further citing the fact that 70 percent of our energy comes
from coal, and, to date, America
has no substitute for coal based energy. Well, I try to stay up to date on what
Obama's big government is doing, but I was a bit shocked to learn that , once
again, Obama has circumvented Congress and ordered his Environmental Protection
Czar to begin imposing fines, fees and surtaxes on all coal based energy
beginning 1 June
2014.
Horse pulling Amish buggy killed in drive-by shooting
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/Horse_pulling_Amish_buggy_killed_in_drive-by_shooting.html#AFZBPUASp48RA51Q.99
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/Horse_pulling_Amish_buggy_killed_in_drive-by_shooting.html#AFZBPUASp48RA51Q.99
Excerpt: A horse pulling an Amish buggy was shot and killed
in a drive-by shooting Sunday night in rural
Lancaster Co., police said. A bullet
wound stained the horse’s torso. The horse died before a veterinarian could
arrive. (huh. And I thought that "Amish Mafia" reality show was a
joke. ~Bob)
Bachmann Uncorks On
Obama, Armageddon: Has choice words for president''s nuke deal with Iran
Excerpt: ”It is a blunder of such great proportion, history
will record it’s folly,” she ruefully predicted…. “Now Israel must
secure not only her destiny, but she may have to save the world from an
Islamic-inspired nuclear Armageddon,” she observed ominously…. In an interview
with the Post, she said the looming deal with Iran would
not just be bad for Israel ,
it would be “suicidal” for the world. (POTUS tie color changed from red with
black suit to blue with black suit. Likewise, all our local TV personalities on
news now wearing black/blue versus red/black. Gee….Googled colors and could
mean “imminent nuclear threat with mass fatalities…” No one pays attention to
Bachman; they’ve written her off…Barb. I think the tie color means, "Pay
attention to the nice tie, not the lie. ~Bob)
Back to the stone age: Afghanistan 'plans to reintroduce
public stoning as punishment for adultery.'
Excerpt: Afghanistan is
planning to reintroduce public stoning as punishment for adultery 12 years
after the Taliban was ousted from power, according to a new draft penal code.
The move has shocked human rights campaigners and will
dismay donors who have poured billions of pounds into the country for
reconstruction. (The Qur'an and Hadith require execution for adultery. If a
girl says she was raped, and cannot produce four male Muslims as witnesses, she
is then fond guilty of adultery, as she admits she has had sex, but according
to Allah, it wasn't rape unless there are four witnesses. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The two ALA lawyers who spoke (despite the
library’s own policy of only allowing one speaker per group) defended the
library’s decision to offer unfiltered access while never mentioning the
specifics of what that really means: access to bestiality, identity theft,
pedophiles accessing children online via chat rooms, and much more. Many people
have asked how is it possible that public libraries defend men watching porn
near children as if the library is some sort of adult theater without dark
curtains or an age limit. The ALA ’s
answer is: “freedom of information.”
Obama Admin
Moves Vatican Embassy, Citing
Security Concerns
Teach them to complain about Obamacare. ~Bob. Excerpt: The
Obama administration has decided to shut down the free-standing American
embassy to the Holy See….. The move is being justified as a result of
the security reviews that followed the attacks on our embassy
in Benghazi last year but five former American envoys are
strenuously objecting, reports John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter : Justified primarily on
the grounds of enhanced security, the move is described by former U.S.
Ambassador James Nicholson, who's also a former Secretary of Veterans Affairs
in the Bush administration and a former chair of the Republican National
Committee, as a "massive downgrade" in U.S./Vatican ties. (Comment
listed on site: “A glorious site
would be millions of Muslims boarding ships back to Mecca carrying a liberal under each arm.”
--Barb. I'd pay to see a ship try to sail to Mecca ...~Bob)
Report: Half of new
HIV cases in Greece from
2009-2011 self-inflicted to get benefits
Excerpt: A case study contained within a lengthy World
Health Organization report reviewing the health inequities among European
countries says Greeks may be contracting HIV intentionally in order to go on
public assistance. According to the “case study” contained in the report
“Review of social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European
Region: final report,” while suicides, homicide, and thefts increased during
the Greek economic crisis, so too did the rate of HIV infection — about half of
which the report says were likely self-inflicted to obtain benefits. (Talk
about desperate time, desperate measures. ~Bob)
Climate talks end
with the promise of climate ‘reparations’ to poor countries
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/25/climate-talks-end-with-the-promise-of-climate-reparations-to-poor-countries/#ixzz2ljlloZyi
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/25/climate-talks-end-with-the-promise-of-climate-reparations-to-poor-countries/#ixzz2ljlloZyi
Excerpt: Nearly 200 countries hope to bring the world closer
to reaching a more comprehensive agreement in 2015, including funding to poor
countries for the damages caused by global warming….Last week, more than 130
nations walked out of the negotiations as rich countries — including the U.S.,
Australia and the European Union — opposed creating a separate mechanism to
dole out funds for “loss and damage” from global warming to poor countries.
However, diplomats compromised as the talks officially ended on
Friday and agreed to compensate poor countries under current treaties
while not setting up a new institution to handle such a task. (Socialist global
redistribution of your tax dollars. --Barb)
Sen. Sessions slams
Obama, CEOs on immigration
Excerpt: Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions wants wealthy CEOs
to butt out of immigration policy. “America is not an oligarchy… A
Republic must answer to the people,” Sessions said today, in a direct response
to President Barack Obama’s latest effort to get wealthy California CEOs to
increase their support for his unpopular push for increased immigration.
“Congressional leaders must forcefully reject the notion, evidently accepted by
the president, that a small cadre of CEOs can tailor the nation’s entire
immigration policy to suit their narrow interests,” Sessions declared in a
populist statement that contradicts the media’s image of Republican coziness
with CEOs.
Quote
All great peoples are conservative. --Thomas Carlyle
Obama’s Asia ‘Rebalancing’ Weighted
Heavy in China’s Favor: Before China seized airspace over the
weekend, Congress learned how the PRC is rocketing toward military superiority
and its new world order.
President Obama’s “rebalancing” toward Asia is already
severely off-kilter as China barrels toward military superiority, bullies its
way to territorial control and lengthens its manipulative reach far beyond its
continent. As administration negotiators were busy trying to rush a deal with Iran on Saturday, China announced that it had established an
East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone over the disputed Senkaku Islands also
claimed by Japan .
Under the new rules, all aircraft must get clearance from Chinese authorities
or face a military reaction from PRC authorities guarding the zone.
Excerpt: China
has sent its only aircraft carrier on a training mission in the South China
Sea, where Beijing
is engaged in tense territorial disputes with several of its neighbors. (well,
look who's on Yankee Station now. ~Bob)
Planned Parenthood
Nearly Kills Woman, Gave Her Birth Control Shots During Undiagnosed Pregnancy
Excerpt: The two things you expect Planned Parenthood to be
good at, diagnosing unplanned pregnancies so they can be targeted for abortion,
and administering birth control, are the subject of a medical malpractice
lawsuit filed by a Tacoma
woman in December of 2012.
Obama donor Haim
Saban bemoans lack of valet parking at the White House
Problems of the One Percent. ~Bob
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