Latest Lung Update
Things have been pretty stable. Breathing hard with
exertion, but the oxygen sats are staying at 94% with only 2 LPM of O2 under
exertion. It was a sharp drop in my oxygen saturation the last three times I
went into the hositral that indicated the presence of pneumonia. At PT rehab,
doing 16 minutes on the treadmill at 1.6 mph, and 50 reps each on the chest
press, leg pres and a stretching exercise where you pull a big "rubber
band." My FEV numbers (the amount of air you can expel in 0ne second) have
been low, so Al Gore should approve that I'm putting less carbon into the
atmosphere. Last week, they ticked up over five days from 1.08 to 1.12. This is
about 25% of expected, but you lose lung capacity as you age. Bonnie only gets
2.44 Liters. Then over the weekend they dropped to 1.00. I think this is due to
the mucus buildup and my lung being tired and irritated by the constant
coughing, but I reported it to my Transplant Coordinator Monday morning, as a
10% drop can indicate rejection. He ordered a chest x-ray and a PFT (pulmonary
function test). The x-ray was apparently clearer than my last one, The EFV
number from the PFT was 1.24, much better on their big booth machine than my
handheld one. They are going to schedule anther bronchoscopy--my 20th since
January, probably for Monday, June 30. Have to clear staff and operating room
time. And so it goes on. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Brandon Garabrant,
Marine who tried to wear uniform to HS graduation, killed in action
Excerpt: A Marine whose request to wear his uniform at his
high school graduation last year was refused by school officials has been
killed in Afghanistan. Brandon Garabrant, 19, was one of three Marines killed
by a roadside bomb this week, MyFoxBoston.com reported. Garabrant gained
fame last year when he asked to wear his dress blues to his graduation
from ConVal Regional High School
Worth Reading
Excerpt:
With men like Mr. Gowdy in office, there is a flame of hope.
Excerpt: The Constitution of the United States does not give
presidents the power to carry out major policy changes without the cooperation
of other branches of government. Once the country becomes disenchanted with a
president during his second term, Congress has little incentive to cooperate
with him -- and, once Congress becomes uncooperative, there is little that a
president can do on his own. That is, if he respects the Constitution. President
Obama has demonstrated, time and again, that he has no respect for the
Constitution's limitations on his power.
Surprise: IRS cut ties with
Sonasoft almost immediately after Lois Lerner scandal broke.
Excerpt: A couple
of weeks after Congress started requesting Lois Lerner’s email records from the
IRS, Lerner’s computer crash – and, shortly after that, the IRS let their
contract with Sonasoft lapse. Left unstated is why the IRS would decide to
terminate services with the company that was providing them with backups,
although I’m sure that we could all hazard a guess or two. (Gee, who could have predicted something like this? ~Bob)
Halperin: 'Democrat'
President Is Why IRS Scandal Not Media 'Obsession.' By John Nolte
Excerpt: On
Monday's edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Mark Halperin said out
loud what every fair-minded person has known for over a year now, "I think
with a different administration, one that was a Republican administration, this
story would be a national obsession, and, instead, it's getting coverage here
and a few other places. But it deserves a lot more questions."
An arrogant and lawless
IRS. By Michael Gerson
Excerpt: Noted management expert and Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen was
apparently called out of retirement — like the Ted Williams of evasive,
unapologetic bureaucrats — to destroy what is left of his agency’s credibility.
At immediate issue is two years of subpoenaed e-mails from former IRS official
Lois Lerner to outside agencies, lost in a convenient computer crash. The
possible involvement of other agencies is one focus of a congressional
investigation into the heightened IRS scrutiny of conservative nonprofit groups before
the 2012 election.
IRS chief denies
tipping off White House about missing e-mails
Excerpt: Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen
on Monday denied telling the White House about missing e-mails that could serve
as evidence in the IRS targeting investigation. (They got it from Snowden.
~Bob)
Russia in secret plot
against fracking, NATO chief says
Excerpt: Russia
is secretly working with environmental groups campaigning against fracking in
an attempt to maintain Europe's dependence on energy imports from Moscow , the
secretary-general of Nato has said. Speaking at the Chatham House foreign
affairs think-tank in London , Anders Fogh
Rasmussen said Russia
was mounting a sophisticated disinformation campaign aimed at undermining attempts
to exploit alternative energy sources such as shale gas. (Green is the new Red.
~Bob)
Excerpt: A recently discovered government request for
“escort services for unaccompanied alien children” dating back to January is
raising questions about whether the government was planning for a surge of
illegal immigrants this year as amnesty talks heated up in the United States.
The request specifically says it was preparing for 65,000 undocumented
children. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the request to
TheBlaze, which is for transportation companies to escort children from
the U.S.-Mexico border to relocation facilities throughout the United States . (Of
course, Biden ineffective and suggested some staying....which will open the floodgates more. Blaze reports gang members being
moved to cities around US by US fed gov. --Barb)
Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change: Western policies seem more
interested in carbon-dioxide levels than in life expectancy. By Caleb S.
Rossiter
Excerpt: Every year environmental groups celebrate a night
when institutions in developed countries (including my own university) turn off
their lights as a protest against fossil fuels. They say their goal is to get America and Europe to look from space like Africa : dark, because of minimal energy use. But that is
the opposite of what's desired by Africans I know. They want Africa
at night to look like the developed world, with lights in every little village
and with healthy people, living longer lives, sitting by those lights. Real
years added to real lives should trump the minimal impact that African carbon
emissions could have on a theoretical catastrophe. (Here is your classic,
dyed-in-the-wool Liberal, well known antiwar activist, long history of being
one of the "good guys", and he says one thing, one little thing about
giving Africa a break on generating energy they need desperately, and WHAM,
he's bounced off the organization he's been part of for 23 years. Who says
there's no hard-edged suppression of anyone who won't toe the exact line of
"Climate Change" and its priorities? --Del. When Al Gore lowers his carbon
footprint to equal mine, I'll start to worry. ~Bob)
Mafia 'adore evil'
and are 'excommunicated', says Pope Francis
Excerpt: Pope Francis has
taken on one of Italy’s most
dangerous organised crime groups, calling the 'Ndrangheta crime group an
example of “the adoration of evil” and saying Mafiosi “are excommunicated”. The
pope, speaking during a mass in the southern Italy , issued the strongest attacks
on organised crime since the late Pope John Paul lambasted the Sicilian Mafia
in 1993.
WOW! Somebody gets Viet Nam
Excerpt: I thought this PJTV Video:
"Bill Whittle Is Ashamed of the USA Because of Obama Letting Iraqis Get
Slaughtered (Members Only)" was a mindblower because he tells the real
truth about what happened in Viet
Nam . He's working on three questions and
Iraq/Viet Nam come last, but it's worth the wait to see and hear him lay a
napalm blast on the false history of the war. --Del
The scandal of fiddled global warming data TheUS
The scandal of fiddled global warming data The
Excerpt: When future generations try to understand how the
world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over
global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking
up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already
much evidence of this seven years ago, when I was writing my history of the
scare, The Real Global Warming Disaster. But now another damning example has
been uncovered by Steven Goddard’s US blog Real Science, showing how
shamelessly manipulated has been one of the world’s most influential climate records,
the graph of US surface temperature records published by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (Wow, here is a great collection of
articles that really play hell with the current mania about Climate Change. Not
that any of it will make the slightest difference to the eco-fanatics. Including
all the ones high up in our government. --Del )
Excerpt: NCDC never publishes graphs of measured US
temperatures. Here is why.
Excerpt: Prior to the year 2000, NASA showed US temperatures
cooling since the 1930′s, and 1934 much warmer than 1998.
Bad News: It Could Take A Decade to Get to the Bottom of
"Lost" IRS Emails. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: If you're looking for answers about what happened
to those "lost" IRS emails, you better buckle in for the long haul. As
investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson points
out the EPA destroyed emails back in the 1990s and
now thirteen years after a lawsuit, there is closure in the case but
the emails are still gone. (That's about nine years and eleven months longer
than te publics attention span. Of course, if potentially incriminating
Republican emails were "missing," the media would pound the story
every day. Personally, I think Jimmy Hoffa has them. ~Bob)
Email Shows IRS Official Was Pretty Happy About Obama
Publicly Singling Out Conservative "Secret Donor" Groups. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: An email recently
released by the House Oversight Committee shows IRS official Sarah
Ingram was pretty excited about President Obama publicly speaking out against
conservative groups with "secret donors." The email was sent from
Ingram to Lois Lerner and others inside the tax agency after a glowing piece
was published in the New York Times about the IRS and the trouble it
was having with new tax exempt applicants and groups in light of the 2010
Citizen's United ruling.
IRS Admits Wrongdoing, to Pay $50,000 in Leaking of
Marriage Group’s Tax Return. By Ken McIntyre
Excerpt: Two years after activists for same-sex marriage
obtained the confidential tax return and donor list of a national group opposed
to redefining marriage, the Internal Revenue Service has admitted wrongdoing
and agreed to settle the resulting lawsuit. 9why not--the $50k comes from our
pockets. It should come from the pockets of the person(s) who broke the law.
~Bob)
Some Democrats fear Clinton
Excerpt: Some influential Democrats — including former
advisers to President Obama — said in interviews last week they fear that Clinton ’s personal wealth
and rarefied, cloistered lifestyle could jeopardize the Democratic Party’s
historic edge with the middle class that powered Obama’s wins.
Balanced: Fact Check: Were the
Excerpt: PolitiFact.com questioned whether someone who buys
a $2.85 million house can be “dead broke.” It asked two accounting professors
for their opinions. Assistant Professor Jeffrey Hoopes of Ohio
State University
said to call the Clintons
dead broke would be a stretch for how the term is commonly understood. “Almost
any president leaving office can expect tens if not hundreds of millions of
dollars of future earnings as a result of their having been president,” Hoopes
told PolitiFact.com. “Speaking, consulting, board positions, and so on, are all
very lucrative.” (I wish I was this broke, with such limited prospects. ~Bob)
Supreme Court limits
EPA global warming rules
Excerpt: The Supreme Court delivered a setback to the
Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, placing limits on the sole Obama
administration program already in place to deal with power plant and factory
emissions of gases blamed for global warming.
Hillary’s
Child-Rapist Defense> It’s most definitely a newsworthy
story, so why does the Arkansas
Excerpt: In 2003, when she was a senator from New York , and published her first memoir, Living
History, Clinton included a brief mention of the
case, mainly as a way to take credit for Arkansas ’s
first rape-crisis hotline. And in 2008, Glenn Thrush — then
at Newsday — wrote a lengthy article on the subject. Don’t remember
it? There’s a reason. “My then-editor appended a meaningless intro to the
story, delayed and buried it because, in his words, ‘It might have an impact,’”
Thrush said in
a June 15 tweet. Well, the editor got his way. It didn’t have an impact.
5 Dead, 19 Wounded in
Weekend Chicago
Ho, hum, what else is new. ~Bob
Hard Times Demand Accountability: The Tragedy of Violence
in Chicago
Excerpt: The President has been outspoken about other
national tragedies, including the Sandy Hook
elementary mass killing and the Trayvon Martin case. So have other black
leaders such as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and National of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan. But up until the last February, the President had been curiously
silent about the epidemic of crime and violence plaguing his own back yard. Some
believe his hand was forced by the publicity surrounding shooting death of teen
Hadiya Pendleton in Chicago
less than a week after she performed as a majorette cheerleader at the
President’s second inauguration.
Man in sword attack
told victim's wife he planned to kill
Excerpt: In the days before the Thursday afternoon attack
that killed Dustin M. Vanderheyden, 27, and injured David Gerard, 24, defendant
Young J. Choi told Vanderheyden's wife he wanted her for himself, court
documents say. (When swords are outlawed, only ronin will have katanas. ~Bob)
Poll: 65 Percent
Disapprove Of Obama's Immigration Policies. By Sarah Jean Seman
Excerpt: Two in three Americans are displeased with
President Barack Obama’s handling of immigration, according to a recent Gallup
poll. While 65 percent disapprove, only 31 percent are pleased with
the president’s immigration policies. This brings his overall approval to the
one of the lowest ratings since the survey's inception in 2010. (how long can
the media prop him up in the face of policies that a strong majority disapprove
of? Like this, Keystone, late term abortion, the Middle
East foreign policy, Obamacare...~Bob)
Blacks Need More
Racists. By Raynard Jackson
http://www.blackpressusa.com/2014/06/blacks-need-more-racists/#sthash.qDMJ0Dpm.PgtEVLGu.dpuf
http://www.blackpressusa.com/2014/06/blacks-need-more-racists/#sthash.qDMJ0Dpm.PgtEVLGu.dpuf
A few weeks ago, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) made a
stunning announcement that caused a lot of consternation in the Black
community. UNCF had accepted a $ 25 million contribution from Koch Industries
and the Charles Koch Foundation. Under normal circumstances, David and Charles
Koch – the brothers who control the two entities – would be applauded for their
generosity. But some Blacks have labeled the Koch brothers as racist simply
because they are White, conservative, and libertarians who believe in smaller
government, lower taxes and ballot integrity. However, when the critics are
asked to specify what has the Koch family done that is racist, they draw
blanks. (OK, here is the perfect article to send to all your really out there
Liberal/Leftist friends and acquaintances. Another chance to really mess with
their heads! Everyone knows those incredibly evil Koch brothers could not
possibly be giving even a penny for poor Black college students, why, they are
the supreme racists of the Right, aren't they? Actually, maybe they are a good
example of how racist conservatives really are. --Del )
World War I: The War
That Changed Everything
Excerpt: A hundred years ago next week, in the small Balkan
city of Sarajevo , Serbian nationalists murdered
the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary
and his wife. People were shocked but not particularly worried. Sadly, there
had been many political assassinations in previous years—the king of Italy ,
two Spanish prime ministers, the Russian czar, President William McKinley. None
had led to a major crisis. Yet just as a pebble can start a landslide, this
killing set off a series of events that, in five
weeks, led Europe into a general war. (I read
this with great interest, and found it to be really illuminating. It's not a
very long read, and I recommend it heartily. --Del )
Book Review: 'Some
Desperate Glory' by Max Egremont | 'Poetry of the First World War' edited by
Tim Kendall. British poets of World War I are often thought of as antiwar, but
they were warriors as well as artists.
Excerpt: But Owen (1893-1918) was no pacifist. Not only did
he die in battle, he earned a Military Cross for inflicting "considerable
losses on the enemy" and believed that the war was a necessary evil. In
June 1917, he wrote his mother that the "Aim in War" was the
"Extinction of Militarism, beginning with Prussian." In September
1917, he wrote: "I hate washy pacifists as temperamentally as I hate
whiskied prussianists."
Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the
Poets Knew by Max Egremont
On things he is so sure he knows all about, while in truth
not having even an inkling of the so very, very much that he doesn't know. I
could spend a lot of time going through his claims and opinions tearing them
up, but I'm too short of time and energy today for that. But this is what all
of us who worry about the future of the country and who have some remote ideas
of how things really work in the world, and details like the wars our military
did win very nicely (how about Gulf One & Two?), have to keep in mind
about what views are being broadcast in our society. Englehardt is not a lone
figure with such ideas, there are all too many others out there poisoning the
minds of college and university students. BTW, needless to say (but I'll say
it) Englehardt has never served in the military, is not a military historian or
theorist, but is just another person so impressed by his own incredible
brilliance that he has no trouble sharing his laser vision of reality with
everyone else. As some have said, the question is not whether this nation can
survive a President like Mr. Obama, the question is, can we survive the kind of
electorate that put him in that office not once but twice, and can we survive
academia and the media misinforming our youth so badly about our history and
the realities of the world? --Del
European Reports Show
NSA's Successes. By Abigail R. Esman
Excerpt: Now the results of some of those investigations are
in. The findings: Washington
was right all along. NSA programs in Europe – and specifically its PRISM
project – have now been confirmed to have stayed dozens of terror attacks
across the continent, and helped America kill suspected terrorists
abroad. Indeed, a report published last month by the Dutch agency
responsible for overseeing Dutch intelligence states clearly that "thanks
to PRISM, 26 attacks (in Europe, including one in the Netherlands ),
were neutralized."
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The American Left has been expert in indoctrinating
a new generation with false history. We have seen this with Oliver Stone and
Peter Kuznick’s Showtime TV series on the Cold War, and especially with the
writings and pseudo-history of the late Howard Zinn. While conservatives — with
some laudable exceptions — concentrate largely on policy issues, the left knows
that it is not sufficient to work only for its own political agenda. The left
realizes it needs to capture the realm of culture, which includes the portrayal
of the American past. The left believes that if the American past is to be
accurately understood, its citizens must be educated to understand that their
country was always the real oppressor of both its own citizens and the world
community. Then, the evil of virtually all administrations will be seen not as
an aberration, but as the result one should expect. (What a great expose of
manipulation of history to support Leftist causes, and the great examples of
what Goebbels proclaimed so successfully- shout the lie, repeat the lie, again
and again, louder and louder and it becomes the Truth. This essay needs to be
read by a really large fraction of intelligent Americans, and every college
student. It is so very, very important for people to understand how long they
have been deceived, consistently, deliberately, by the Left, so that they can
shake off at least some of the misconceptions and misunderstandings that hamper
us in reacting to the challenges of today. --Del )
Excerpt: U.S. Senator and doctor Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK),
today released his new oversight report “Friendly
Fire: Death, Delay, and Dismay at the VA.” The report is based on a
year-long investigation of VA hospitals around the nation that chronicled the
inappropriate conduct and incompetence within the VA that led to
well-documented deaths and delays. The report also exposes the inept
congressional and agency oversight that allowed rampant misconduct to grow
unchecked. “This report shows the problems at the VA are worse than anyone
imagined. The scope of the VA’s incompetence – and Congress’ indifferent
oversight – is breathtaking and disturbing. This investigation found the
problems at the VA are far deeper than just scheduling. Over the past decade,
more than 1,000 veterans may have died as a result of the VA’s
misconduct and the VA has paid out nearly $1 billion to veterans and their
families for its medical malpractice. As is typical with any bureaucracy, the
excuse for not being able to meet goals is a lack of resources. But this is not
the case at the VA where spending has increased rapidly in recent years,” Dr.
Coburn said. (I can only repeat that all of the VA healthcare professionals
I've interacted with through my lung transplant process have been good to
superb, from the surgeon to the nurses, CNAs, physical therapists and
respiratory therapists. ~Bob).
NYT: Poll Finds Dissatisfaction Over Iraq
Excerpt: The poll found that 58 percent of Americans
disapprove of the way Mr. Obama is handling foreign policy, a jump of 10 points
in the last month to the highest level since Mr. Obama took office in 2009. The
spike in disapproval is especially striking among Democrats, nearly a third of
whom said they did not approve of his handling of foreign policy.
WaPo: President Obama reaches new low on Iraq
Excerpt: President Obama receives his worst marks yet for
handling the situation in Iraq, with 52 percent disapproving and strong
negative sentiment now outpacing strong approval by 2 to 1 (34 to 17 percent)
in a new
Washington Post-ABC News poll. (I don't think air strikes on ISIS would
save Iraq ,
but they are okay with me. Killing terrorists is always goo. ~Bob)
More Americans Moving
to the South and West
Excerpt: Between 2010 and 2013, nearly a million people
migrated to Texas , Florida ,
the Carolinas and Colorado ,
reports Stateline. 1.2 million Americans left the Northeast and the Midwest for the South and West in just three years, from
2010 to 2013. New York , Illinois ,
California , New Jersey
and Michigan
have lost almost a million residents to interstate moves.
CBO: It's Not
Possible to Analyze Obamacare Costs
Excerpt: Americans may never get an accurate projection of
Obamacare's impact on the deficit, reports the Washington Examiner. Before it
become law, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that Obamacare
would cost $938 billion and reduce the deficit by $143 billion over the first
decade, from 2010 through 2019. At that time, the figures were already
questionable: ... The estimate of $143 billion in deficit reduction was a
function of the law's tax increases and Medicare spending cuts. Since that
original estimate, the CBO's financial projections have continued to change: In
July 2012, the CBO reduced its estimate of the law's impact on the budget
deficit to $109 billion. In April 2014, the CBO said that the cost of the ACA
from 2015 to 2024 would be more than $1.8 trillion -- twice as much as its
first ten-year projection.
Excerpt: If you like the unfolding disaster in
Obama-abandoned Iraq , you
are going to love Obama-abandoned Afghanistan . Just two weeks before Iraq descended into chaos, President Obama
stepped into the Rose Garden to announce his plan to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2016.
“It’s time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our
foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Obama
declared. “Americans have learned that it’s harder to end wars than begin them
— but this is how wars end in the 21st century.”
Obamacare Exchanges Are ‘Disappointing’ With Fewer Than 4
Million Newly Insured. The Government Hoped for 26 Million. By Sharyl Attkisson
Excerpt: In April, President Obama told
the nation that “marketplace” or “exchange” enrollment, at 8 million
customers as of March 31, had exceeded expectations and costs were lower than
expected. Many in the news media accepted the selectively released statistics,
despite the Obama administration’s record of sometimes providing inaccurate or
incomplete information on HealthCare.gov. Even today, the government continues
to withhold relevant public information on costs and enrollment requested by
Congress and the press under the Freedom of Information Act. (Ah, yes, the
"most transparent administration in history. ~Bob)
Follow Your Tax
Dollars Across This Map to Unfriendly Nations
Excerpt: What’s worse than using taxpayer money for special
interests and cronyism? Maybe sending taxpayer money to nations that aren’t
the best friends of the United
States . (Need to update Harry Belafonte's
song "Matilda, she take me money and run Venezeula," to" Obama,
he take me money and give Venezuela ."
~Bob
Excerpt: Back in March Andrew Lampart, a high school student
at Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury, Connecticut was doing research for an
upcoming school debate on gun control. When he tried to access the National
Rifle Association home page he found his school Internet has blocked access to
NRA. However, Andrew found all sites that promoted gun control were wide open. This
made the kid a bit suspicious so he decided to do a little digging. Suspecting
some political hi-jinks, Andrew went to the home page for the Republican Party
and found it blocked while the home page for the Democratic party was open. He
then tried religion. The home page for Pope Francis was blocked as were all
religious organizations who opposed abortion but Planned Parenthood and Pro
Choice America were as wide open as a streetwalker's legs. (Education
today--teaching students what to think, not how to think. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Put this here to fit with the next two articles. ~Bob. Excerpt:
Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I cannot stand Barack Hussein
Obama. But, frankly, I fear for Obama's life....I'm afraid that these last few
months of just horrible Presidential leadership has spawned a whole new group
of potential assassins. I will tell you why that would be a terrible thing, but
first let's look at those who might be thinking long and hard about putting
Obama in the ground. (I consider myself a staunch critic of the President. I
believe his policies are wrong, that he acts in an arbitrary manner, that he is
in over his head, and that his worldview is disastrous. But nothing would be
more disastrous than his assassination. There would be riots in the cities,
regardless of who did it, that would destroy billions of dollars of property
and kill thousands of people. It would hasten the collapse. And Biden would be
equally incompetent and over his head. Pray it does not happen. ~Bob)
Excerpt: This clown’s Twitter account is still active.
Twitter only seems interested in closing the accounts of those who oppose jihad
terror.
Excerpt: So here again we see a convert to Islam who somehow
got the crazy idea that his new religion had something to do with violence.
Muslim groups in the U.S.
profess to reject and abhor this idea, and yet they have no program of any kind
designed to teach converts to Islam like DeTillio why this understanding of
Islam is wrong on Islamic grounds. What’s more, law enforcement and government
officials don’t seem to mind this omission. Now, why is that?
Excerpt: But the theory that turned Al Qaeda into a regional
monster didn’t come from Dick Cheney. It came from Obama’s Presidential
Study Directive 11 which helped pave the way for the Arab Spring. The
definitive speech that opened the gates of hell wasn’t Bush’s speech on Iraq , but Obama’s Cairo speech.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/06/pakistani_military_c_4.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29#
Excerpt: The Pakistani military has claimed that more than 250 "terrorists" and zero civilians have been killed during the first week of military operations in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.
Excerpt: The Pakistani military has claimed that more than 250 "terrorists" and zero civilians have been killed during the first week of military operations in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.
Excerpt: Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the
Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial
powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the
Mediterranean Sea to Iran .
The militants, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), first
moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces,
the sources said on Saturday. (The good news is that historically, when there
is a Caliphate, the Muslims begin killing each other over who will be Caliph.
~Bob)
ISIS and the threat
to Turkey
Excerpt: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)
seized the Turkish consulate in Mosul ,
Iraq Turkey
would retaliate if any Turkish citizen were harmed, warning ISIS should not
"test Turkey's
resolve." Ankara also requested
an emergency
NATO meeting, after which Secretary-General Rasmussen said that
NATO would not hesitate to defend and protect Turkey .
Boko Haram crisis:
Dozens killed in villages near Chibok
Excerpt: Dozens of villagers are feared dead after attacks
by suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants in Nigeria 's northeastern Borno state.
The raids on Saturday morning were close to Chibok, from where more than 200
schoolgirls were abducted in April.
Chinese police shoot dead 13 attackers in restive Xinjiang
Excerpt: Chinese police shot dead 13 attackers in the
restive far-western region of Xinjiang on Saturday after they rammed a car into a police station and detonated explosives, Xinhua
news agency said, in the latest of a series of attacks to worry Beijing. China has
been toughening its response to violent crime after a spate of attacks around
the country, centred on Xinjiang, the traditional home of Muslim Uighurs.
(Restive = don't go there, you might get killed. As in, "Stay out of
restive South Chicago . http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/4-Dead-15-Wounded-in-Weekend-Chicago-Violence-264156581.html.
~Bob)
Sudanese Christian
mom spared death sentence rearrested trying to leave country
Excerpt: Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth in a Khartoum prison after being sentenced to death in May for
allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity, was arrested with her husband,
Daniel Wani, at Khartoum
airport as she tried to leave the country, according to Al-Sharif Ali, a member
of her legal team.
California: Muslim
gets life sentence for killing wife in murder initially blamed on
“Islamophobia.” By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: This murder was a very big deal for awhile among
Leftists and Islamic supremacists, although now (of course) they have forgotten
that it ever happened. At the time, because of the note that was found by the
body saying “Go back to your country, you terrorist,” the crime was universally
reported as being motivated by “Islamophobia,” and the work of an “Islamophobe”
who hated Shaima Alawadi for wearing a hijab. They even staged a campaign, “One
Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi.” When it turned out to be an Islamic honor
killing and Shaima’s husband was arrested for the murder, they went silent —
with no retractions or apologies, of course.
Israeli killed on
Passover eve was murdered by Palestinian freed in Shalit deal
Excerpt: Police Chief Superintendent Baruch Mizrahi was
killed by Ziad Awad, a Palestinian freed from an Israeli jail as part of the
prisoner deal that freed Gilad Shalit. ... Before launching the attack, Awad
confided in his son that he had religious motivation, saying that, "according to
Islam, whoever kills a Jew goes to heaven." (Note to Obama: If
you deal with terrorists, more people die. ~Bob)
At least 8 killed by
Boko Haram suicide bomb in Kano
Excerpt: A Boko Haram suicide bomb killed at least 8
students at a college in Nigeria 's
second city Kano
Monday in the latest of a string of attacks on the northern city.
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