Happy St. Pats.
Had the PICC IV pulled after PT Rehab Monday morning, so no
longer hooked to tubes again. Rehab was okay, but you lose ground much faster
than you, gain, alas.
Word around Rehab was they just lost a new patient who came
for a lung--went bad too fast. It reminds the rest of us how fortunate and
blessed we are, even when the new lung has "issues" like mine. There is a
small window when you are sick enough to qualify for one of the limited lungs
that come available, but not too sick (or dead) to get it. I was failing fast at
the end of 2013--Bonnie, usually optimistic, didn't expect me to make my
birthday on April 15. Thanks to the VA-UW
Hospital
Republicans won a special election for Congress in Florida
Excerpt: A U.S. SEAL commando team boarded the tanker
Morning Glory from a Naval special warfare rigid inflatable boat as it sat in
international waters off Cyprus
on Sunday night.
The seizure was approved by U.S. President Barack Obama and
requested by the Libyan and Cypriot governments, Pentagon Press Secretary John
Kirby said.
Excerpt: Three al Qaeda militants were reported killed yesterday while
setting up a car as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED).
According to tribal sources, the explosion occurred near the house of an al
Qaeda commander in the city of Habban
in Shabwa province.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Answer that by comparing the behavior of Richard
Nixon to that of an increasingly similar Barack Obama. Nixon tried to use the
Internal Revenue Service to go after his political enemies — although his IRS
chiefs at least refused his orders to focus on liberals. Nixon ignored settled
law and picked and chose which statutes he would enforce — from denying funds
for the Clean Water Act to ignoring congressional subpoenas. (The difference
is, the media hated Nixon, so he was toast when they discovered the abuses. the
media still tingles over Obama, so they have his back. Any problems are
ignored, or criticism glossed over as based on race, because it must be, his
policies being perfect. thus there is no chance he will be held accountable.
Not holding someone accountable because of race is the worst kind of
condescending racism. It doesn't matter if it's a white jury letting a KKK thug
off because of race, or the media letting Obama and Holder slide because of
race. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The new administration party line is that Putin is
now weak and acting out of just that weakness by sending troops into Ukrainian
territory — a sort of chihuahua who took on a pit bull because he knew he was
weak. But even weak states do not typically invade others because they accept
that they are weak (and thereby expect to lose?), but usually because, even if
weak, they at least still expect to be strong enough to win.
Islamist rebels in Syria
Excerpt: The video, obtained by Qatari-owned television
station Al Jazeera, said the rebels were ready to swap the civilians for 2,000
prisoners who have been detained for more than a year.
Excerpt: Britain is so far gone that it will jail Royal
Barnes and Rebekah Dawson (note yet again that the mainstream media refuses to
give the Muslim names of converts to Islam when they do something evil in
Islam’s name), but it appeases and accommodates organizations that it has
determined are “moderate,” but which are just as dedicated to bringing to
Sharia to Britain, albeit by non-violent means. And so much of Sharia has
already come to Britain :
already simply speaking the truth about Islam and jihad gets one banned from
the country by its cowardly, short-sighted authorities, who are busy throwing
away its security, heritage and future with both hands.
Excerpt: Before they got to a discussion about how Obama has
failed to legalize 30 million illegal invaders, the hosts found the economy,
and particularly the high costs of Obamacare were what was on the forefront of
the audience's minds. So one of the Hispanic hosts read Obama a letter from
someone in the audience. The letter writer wrote that he makes only $36,000
dollars a year and has to support a family on that salary, and how was he
expected to pay out thousands of dollars in Obamacare premiums and still feed
and shelter his family. Obama pondered the question for a moment, stroked his
chin, and offered this. "Well, you'll just have to find ways to cut your
living expenses. Here are a few of those cuts Obama recommended (in priority
order):
Excerpt: The Obama administration is pursuing a free trade
agreement with Vietnam ,
but critics of the country’s authoritarian regime believe sanctions are in
order. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.), a
vocal champion of human rights, on Friday introduced a bill that
would impose targeted financial and visa sanctions on Vietnamese individuals
involved in abuses. “With human rights abuses on the rise, it is clear the
regime is doubling down on repression. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration
has been silent on these gross human rights abuses. This legislation tells the
freedom-seeking people of Vietnam
that Congress stands with them,” Royce said in a statement. (It's about time.
--Del )
Politics,
the Pentagon, and Piecing Together the Military. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt: The commandant's recent White Letter (originally
published in English) outlining the Marine Corps way ahead as
to women serving in ground combat units, including the
infantry, omits that which the wise, the average minded, and even the
brute expect to see validating such a contentious issue: metrics and data.
ON FIRE: Former Obama
Fan Goes On Rant, Burns Her Obama Shirt
Excerpt: This young lady has come to the light. However, she
leaves out some of the most egregious of his crimes, such as ObamaCare, Benghazi and the IRS
Scandal …but still not bad for a former Obama Zombie. (Probably thought she was
entitled to more than he could give. Once you start buying votes with other
folks money, the hunger and demand never stop growing. ~Bob)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Why do liberals hate Sarah Palin? ... I think the
animus — as opposed to just disagreement with her views — derives in part from
the fact that she is vivacious and attractive in a fresh Sally Field sort of
way, unlike the cheek-boned refinement of an Audrey Hepburn or Jackie Onassis.
Or is it because her diction, syntax, and grammar (especially the use of the
passive voice) resonate slightly lower middle-class America ? She is what white grandees
with real white privilege castigate as a beneficiary of white privilege that
she never really had.
Excerpt: Russia
can dodge any proposed US
sanctions by switching to other currencies and creating its own payment system,
Putin’s economic advisor Sergei Glazyev saidTuesday. A senior Kremlin
official has denounced Glazyev’s remark on US-Russia economic ties, calling
them "a personal opinion" inconsistent with the Kremlin stance. (The
Russians are doubling down on their bet about Crimea ,
they are telling Obama "go ahead and try to hurt us". By switching to
other currencies they are bringing up the possibility of the US dollar no
longer being the international currency, which would have some negative
consequences for us. The only thing that could have any chance of making any
difference would be for all of Europe and anyone else we could recruit to come
down with every single way of penalizing the Russians possible. With Europe so dependent on Russian gas and oil, I am not sure
they have any chance of really coming down hard. Anything less than a total
frontal attack by sanctions from everyone will not sway Putin one bit. Obama
would have to really come out and lead from the front on this, and I very
seriously doubt he is prepared or capable of doing so. So I think Crimea is
gone, the way Tibet
was gone once the Chinese Army invaded. There will be screaming about it for a
while, and then it'll all die down, and both Ukraine
and Georgia
will be living in fear of the Russian Army again. Their only other shot is to
get very serious about building up their own military with help from the US and
others, so that they can actually prepare to fight the Russians the next time
they try something like this. Whether they will do that is another unknown.
Putin has played this just fine. He will be a hero in Russia over this, and probably get
more support for anything else he feels like doing to keep the international
pot at a slow boil. He will not stop until something very serious comes along
to make him stop. He's like Hitler after the Munich conference. --Del )
Excerpt: The topic du jour on the left these days is
inequality. But why does the left care about inequality? Do they really want to
lift those at the bottom of the income ladder? Or are they just looking for one
more reason to increase the power of government? If you care about those at the
bottom then you are wasting your time and everyone else's time unless you focus
on one and only one phenomenon: the inequality of educational opportunity. Poor
kids are almost always enrolled in bad schools. Rich kids are almost always in
good schools.
Excerpt: The mother acknowledged hitting her daughter with a
flat hand, showering her in cold water, and covering her mouth with tape when
she was crying. She also forced her to eat hot chili powder and deprived her of
sleep. On several occasions, the mother punished the daughter with a
“time-out,” and the girl’s feet were tied with her mother’s hijab. She forced
her to sleep on the floor. Held her head under running cold water. Dipped her
in to a bucket of water – head first. ... According to the mother, the reason
for the abuse was that the daughter needed to learn how to respect adults. Or
else she could end up like other Norwegian girls, who are almost wishing to be
raped.
Obama threatens to
veto bill that would require administration to enforce laws
Excerpt: President Barack Obama would veto a GOP-drafted
bill that would allow legislators to take agency officials to court if they
don’t enforce laws, according to a White House statement.
The GOP is pushing the bill through the House because Obama
has repeatedly declined to enforce laws he doesn’t like, say GOP legislators. (It
takes a bill? --JB)
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