General News and Comment
Must Read: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass.
By Anthony Daniels. from Imprimis.
Excerpt: Heroin addiction has been presented by officialdom
as a bona fide disease that strikes people like, shall we say, rheumatoid
arthritis. In the United
States , the National Institute on Drug Abuse
defines addiction quite baldly as a chronic relapsing brain disease—and nothing
else. I hesitate to say it, but this seems to me straightforwardly a lie, told
to willing dupes in order to raise funds from the federal government. Be that
as it may, the impression has been assiduously created and peddled among the addicts
that they are the helpless victims of something that is beyond their own
control, which means that they need the technical assistance of what amounts to
a substantial bureaucratic apparatus in order to overcome it. ... Dishonest
passivity and dependence combined with harmful activity becomes a pattern of
life, and not just among drug addicts. ... By a mixture of ideology and fiscal and
social policies, the family has been systematically fractured and destroyed in
England, at least in the lowest part of the society that, unfortunately, needs family
solidarity the most. (This is about the attitudes of the dependent class in the
UK ,
but similar here. Hard to read this and think that not just the US , but all of
western civilization isn't going to collapse. You can subscribe to Imprimis for free at Hillsdale.edu.
Worth doing. ~Bob
Thirteen Things Obama
Cannot Change by Executive Order. By Robert A. Hall
Blog Reader's comment
on the "So Called" Tea Party
I say so-called tea party because the media just can't seem
to make distinction between the tens of thousands of people concerned about
Obamacare, the ballooning debt, and the growth of government who turned out for
rallies in 2009 and 2010 and the groups such as Freedom Works and Tea Party
Patriots who, in my opinion, hijacked the movement to make money, enjoy their
15 minutes of fame, or settle old political scores (cf. Dick Armey).
Incidentally, I don't put a lot weight on Heritage Foundation scores anymore,
since they are now part of the suicidal wing of the Republican
Party. --Chuck. (I've had similar thoughts about the Tea Party. It's evolved
from spontaneous demonstrations to several groups with "leaders"
jockeying for money, power, prestige and perks. The human condition, alas.
~Bob)
Bumper Stickers
Recently saw these bumper stickers in liberal Madison , WI
War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the
Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots. By Ian Morris
I read a review of this in The Week news magazine, and it sounded interesting. Whether I will
have time to get to it is another matter. ~Bob. Excerpt: This erudite yet
compulsively readable history of war (and actually much more) by
archaeologist-historian Morris (Why the West Rules—For Now, 2010) takes the
provocative position that, over time, the value of war, despite its horrors,
has been to make humanity both safer and richer. He covers a vast span, from
primitive (Morris enlists anthropological studies of chimpanzees and early
“protohumans” to explain aggression) and ancient civilizations to the “American
Empire.” War’s impact in terms of lives lost (as a percentage of national
population) has lessened, Morris demonstrates, and its long-term effects have
been, as he puts it, “productive.“ The thesis is elegantly advanced (there is
something to marvel over or even chuckle about on almost every page). Ian
Morris teaches classics, history, and archaeology at Stanford University Stoke-on-Trent , England , in 1960, he now lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains
in California .
512 pages.
Did the Polish
Foreign Minister Really Say Alliance with the U.S.
Excerpt: A Polish magazine says it has obtained recordings
of a conversation in which Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says the country’s
strong alliance with the U.S.
“isn’t worth anything” and is “even harmful because it creates a false sense of
security.” (Probably correct. WWII started when the allied German Nazis and the
Russian Communists divided Poland
between them. Britain and France went to the aide of Poland , but did
not have the power to save it from Nazi tyranny in 1939, or Communist tyranny
in 1945. It wasn't free until the Poles did it themselves. We do not have the
military power to prevent Russia 's
Neo-Commie, Putin, from taking Poland
if he decides to. ~Bob)
Facebook Video Leads
To Arrest In Gloucester
County
Not cut out for a life of crime. ~Bob Excerpt: A video
posted on Facebook has led to the arrest of two brothers on charges of setting
fire to a National Park, New Jersey
mobile home early Saturday morning that destroyed the unoccupied residence. The
burning trailer at 7 Riverview
Drive in Gloucester County
Bombshell: We Know The Whereabouts of Lost IRS Emails
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/bombshell-know-whereabouts-lost-irs-emails/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/bombshell-know-whereabouts-lost-irs-emails/
Excerpt: Without the emails their is no
accountability, despite the fact that the President Obama has
repeatedly claimed that transparency and the rule of law would be touchstones
of his Presidency. “Starting today every agency and department should know
that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold
information, but those who seek to make it known,” said President Obama at a press conference
on the day he took office in January of 2009. I'll believe it when I read them.
If the e-mails contain what I believe they do, the chance of Obama ordering
their release is less than my chance of being elected Pope. Publication of this
means if they are there, steps were taken before you read this. ~Bob)
White House Lawyer Summoned to Testify on Lois Lerner’s
Missing Emails. By Philip Wegmann
Excerpt: Seeking more information about Lois Lerner’s lost
emails, the House Oversight Committee chairman has asked White House counsel
Jennifer O’Connor to testify on Tuesday.
Issa believes that O’Connor may have known about the missing
emails long before lawmakers.
Video. Makes two of us. I've come to believe that they
contain impeachable material that even the media, thus Democrats, couldn't
ignore. And I also believe that we will never see them--the administration will
do anything to prevent that. But a LOT of
people at the IRS must know the truth. Only takes one to break. Unfortunately,
the law enforcement mechanism of the government is under Eric Withholder, who
will use that power to aid the cover up. ~Bob
IRS Official Whose Emails Were "Lost" Visited
White House More Than 30 Times. By Katie
Pavlich
Excerpt: Last night on The Kelly File Chief
Counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice Jay Sekulo revealed that the
former chief of staff to former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, Nikole Flax,
visited the White House 35 times after talking with former head of tax exempt
groups Lois Lerner about working to criminally prosecute conservative tea party
groups for "lying" about political activity.
IRS Emails Backed Up
by Outside Email Archiving Company
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/outside-email-archiving-company-backed-irs-emails/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/outside-email-archiving-company-backed-irs-emails/
Excerpt: The IRS uses as an email archiving company to back
up its emails.
That's right, Sonasoft, whose slogan is "email
archiving done right" touts the IRS as
a customer. ... In fact, according
to Sonasoft, "When used in conjunction with Sonasoft's email archiving
software, continuous email archiving can be achieved without the loss of
emails even after the Primary Exchange Server switches over to the Standby
Exchange Server." (Want to bet it turns out that Sonasoft had an
unfortunate and unprecedented accident wth these emails? ~Bob)
IRS Commissioner Says Emails Aren't Official Records, IRS
Handbook Disagrees. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: That crash happened to occur ten days after Republicans in
Congress first started asking questions about the targeting of conservative
groups. IRS officials repeatedly denied that any such targeting was taking
place, which wasn't true. ... Commissioner Koskinen attempted to defuse this
point by
asserting that not all IRS emails are technically official records
that are subject to retention guidelines. ... Ed Morrissey pointed to plenty
of precedent that suggests otherwise, before unearthing this gem
from…the IRS' own
manual: Email messages are official documents and should reflect this
perspective. (Lie and delay, delay and lie, then accuse hose seeking the truth
of "playing politics." The Obama doctrine. ~Bob)
Chevron Dims the Lights on Green Power. By Ben Elgin
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-29/chevron-dims-the-lights-on-renewable-energy-projects
Excerpt: Yet Chevron recently has retreated from key efforts
to produce clean energy. This includes the renewable
power group, which invested in or built utility-scale solar and geothermal projects with margins of 15 percent
to 20 percent or more, according to a dozen people who worked on the projects.
(The iron laws of economics are unforgiving and cannot be repealed by Executive
Order. A company has as strong an obligation to maximize profits for
shareholders [which usually includes the retirement funds and IRAs for a lot of
little folks] as a lawyer does to give a client the best defense. Companies who
don't see stock prices slide as investors move to companies that do. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The vote, by a count of 310 to 303, was watched
closely in Washington and Jerusalem
and by Palestinians as a sign of momentum for a movement to pressure Israel to stop building settlements in the West
Bank and East Jerusalem and to end the occupation,
with a campaign known as B.D.S., for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
(Investing in countries that oppress women, deny freedom of speech or religion,
stone teen rape victims to death, jail or execute gays, turn a blind eye to
slavery and honor killings, and practice FGM on young girls is still fine.
~Bob)
VIDEO: Britain
Excerpt: Pat Condell once again pulls no punches and
declares the truth in the way that only he can. Well done, Pat!
The Myriad Contradictions of Barack H. Obama. By Derrick
Wilburn
Excerpt: Of course, all lies are not created equal. In the
case of our current president, the list and extent of untruths told the America
people is extraordinary even by political standards. These aren’t just “little
white lies”; he’s told full-on whoppers directly into cameras.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: What philosopher Harvey Mansfield calls “taming the
prince” — making executive power compatible with democracy’s abhorrence of
arbitrary power — has been a perennial problem of modern politics. It is now
more urgent in the United
States than at any time since the Founders,
having rebelled against George III’s unfettered exercise of “royal
prerogative,” stipulated that presidents “shall take care that the laws be
faithfully executed.” Serious as are the policy
disagreements roiling Washington ,
none is as important as the structural distortion threatening constitutional
equilibrium.
Too True: 20 Reasons You
Wouldn't Want To Live In An America
Excerpt: It's shocking that there are so many Americans who
don't care about the Constitution, the rule of law, or even what happens to the
country just as long as someone they agree with ideologically is in charge. In
fact, the only time liberals seem to get really upset these days is if someone
criticizes Barack Obama or tries to put ANY KIND of restraint on his power.
Want to know how America
would look if liberals like Barack Obama had complete control of the country?
VA: 65 percent of
senior executives got bonuses
excerpt: About 65 percent of senior executives at the
Veterans Affairs Department got performance bonuses last year despite
widespread treatment delays and preventable deaths at VA hospitals and clinics,
the agency said Friday. More than 300 VA executives were paid a total of
$2.7 million in bonuses last year, said Gina Farrisee, assistant VA secretary
for human resources and administration. That amount is down from about $3.4
million in bonuses paid in 2012, Farrisee said. (I agree with the comment
towards the end. When 2/3 of your execs are getting sizeable bonuses on top of
very substantial salaries and benefits, maybe you're making it too easy. --Del. They are government
employees, Del ,
thus a Democrat constituency and have to be rewarded as such. Performance has
nothing to do with it. Nothing new here, just the usual vote buying with tax
dollars. ~Bob)
Six Californias :
A Venture Capitalist's Petition to Split
California
Excerpt: Advocates for Six
Californias, a plan to split the Golden State into a half dozen
separate states, are holding a petition drive this weekend to get their plan on
the ballot in 2016. The idea is the brainchild of Timothy Draper, a venture capitalist from Menlo Park – or as he hopes to some day call it, the state of Silicon Valley. Draper has sunk $2
million into signature gathering for the proposal. He maintains it will break
bureaucratic deadlock in Sacramento (proposed
state of North California ) and attract more
business.
FUNNY VIDEO: James
Delingpole of Breitbart London Comes Out Fighting, Takes on 'The Most
Annoying Woman on the Planet': UBER-TROLL (Yasmin Alibhai-Brown)
Excerpt: Yesterday, cultural commentator Yasmin
Alibhai-Brown went off the rails, claiming racism, sexism, and just about anything
else she could get her hands on to attack Michael Fabricant MP for his flippant
tweet which said that if he had to debate her, he might want to "punch her
in the throat". Fabricant's tweet was obviously in jest, and was no
different from when Labour MP Harriet Harman said she wondered how journalist
Quentin Letts was not "clobbered" by her colleague. But nonetheless
the left-liberal outrage-machine swung into motion.
Obama
Isn't an Introvert, He's a Narcissist. By Daniel Greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-isnt-an-introvert-hes-a-narcissist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-isnt-an-introvert-hes-a-narcissist
Excerpt: Obama runs a permanent campaign. He is not interested in sitting in a room and reading books. Like a lot of Ivy Leaguers he’s good at faking intellectualism, at having read all the right books at the right time, or at least gotten summaries of them, so he can claim to be a thinker. ButRosa is right. Obama doesn’t like people. He
likes being admired by people. He loves the attention, but he’s paranoid about
the terms on which he gets it. That undertone of irritation comes into his
voice when he’s challenged or question or even asked for something. Then he
becomes surly.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-isnt-an-introvert-hes-a-narcissist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-isnt-an-introvert-hes-a-narcissist
Excerpt: Obama runs a permanent campaign. He is not interested in sitting in a room and reading books. Like a lot of Ivy Leaguers he’s good at faking intellectualism, at having read all the right books at the right time, or at least gotten summaries of them, so he can claim to be a thinker. But
Police: Robbery
suspect loses 'bet' that victim doesn't have a gun
Excerpt: The man began to walk away, when Officer Colendula
Green said, "At that time the complainant advised he didn't. As the
unknown male proceeded to turn around he turned back towards the complainant
advising the complainant "I bet you don't have one of these",
pointing a gun in his direction. At that point the complainant pulled out his
weapon and began firing shots." The shooting victim left and was later
picked up by ambulance at the Pines apartments.
Excerpt: During all those interviews Hillary has given us
real insights into the plight of living in the world of politics. Hillary says
that, back in 2000 she and Bill were $12 million in debt and barely able to
scrape together the $2 million dollar down payments on two mansions while
funding daughter Chelsea's college tuition. Most of that $12 million of debt
was to settle lawsuits with Clinton
bimbo's Paula and Jennifer and to pay his law team who managed to keep him out
of prison for lying to a federal grand jury. Hillary praised Bill for working
very hard on his speaking tour. She said Bill talked himself hoarse while
making $200,000 dollars per speech he gave for the next four years. Thankfully
Bill was able to rope in $100 million dollars in those four years....after all
there was a lot to talk about; how he single handedly reformed welfare, created
the internet boom, supervised Al Gore while he was inventing the internet. Bill
also explained away Monica Lewinski and Mogadishu
and why he didn't attack that Osama Bin Laden terrorist camp. (And yet 42% of
Americans say Bill Clinton, who lied under oath and had sex with an employee in
the oval office, is the most admired recent president. He was also accused of
rape. [Feminists used to say that having sex with a subordinate was the
equivalent of rape They also said that women don't lie about rape. We haven't
heard these claims since Clinton .]
And yet they wonder why American is going down. ~Bob)
With Pictures: Moment thug tried to rob a convenience
store... only to learn the hard way that owner was Special Forces vet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664203/Caught-camera-Moment-thug-tried-rob-convenience-store-learn-hard-way-owner-Special-Forces-veteran.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664203/Caught-camera-Moment-thug-tried-rob-convenience-store-learn-hard-way-owner-Special-Forces-veteran.html
Excerpt: A camera trained on the entrance to Axis Food Mart
captured the business owner toppling his much younger opponent to the ground
with a couple of swift kicks and punches after the suspect attacked him inside
the store. ... What the unwelcome guest could not have known when he
entered Mdanat’s store at around 1.30am on April 26 with the intent to make a
quick buck is that the middle-aged business owner had been trained in a U.S.
Army Special Forces unit.
Religion of Peace News
Obama repeats his Iraq mistake in Afghanistan
Excerpt: Joseph Lieberman, a former (Liberal Democrat) senator
from Connecticut ,
is senior counsel at the law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres and Friedman. Vance
Serchuk is an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security: As
the Obama administration grapples with how to respond to the terrorist takeover
of northern Iraq, one consequence of the crisis
should be clear: There is an urgent need to reassess the White House’s recently announced plans for
Afghanistan — specifically, its pledge that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn
by the end of 2016, other than a small contingent attached to our embassy in
Kabul.
Excerpt: While Leftists and Liberals are busy calling
Islam-critics Nazis and comparing our activism against an Islamic takeover with
Germany
in the 1930s, the real Nazis are busy hunting Jews.
Excerpt: Here is a Muslim cleric calling for attacks on
Americans who are going about their business in tourist resorts, universities,
coffee shops, restaurants, airplanes, ships, shops, and companies. Where did he
get the idea that Islam would possibly sanction such a thing? As a Muslim
cleric, how did he miss the Religion of Peace’s messages of peace? Will
mainstream analysts ever bother to explain the huge gulf between their
explanation of Islam and its reality?
Al Qaeda Recruits
Gave "Gifts" of Little Girls to Terrorists. By Daniel Greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/al-qaeda-recruits-gave-little-girls-as-gifts-to-terrorists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=al-qaeda-recruits-gave-little-girls-as-gifts-to-terrorists
Excerpt: '“Seven cases of forced marriage involving girls under 13 have been verified,” Unicef said. In addition to that, “two girls were given as a gift” to members of the network by their brothers who had just joined the organisation. Most of the girls married off to Al Qaeda fighters were abandoned by their husbands when the army retook the area in June 2012, the report said. Some of them had given birth, the report added.' And since we’re talking about Jihadists, it wasn’t just girls.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/al-qaeda-recruits-gave-little-girls-as-gifts-to-terrorists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=al-qaeda-recruits-gave-little-girls-as-gifts-to-terrorists
Excerpt: '“Seven cases of forced marriage involving girls under 13 have been verified,” Unicef said. In addition to that, “two girls were given as a gift” to members of the network by their brothers who had just joined the organisation. Most of the girls married off to Al Qaeda fighters were abandoned by their husbands when the army retook the area in June 2012, the report said. Some of them had given birth, the report added.' And since we’re talking about Jihadists, it wasn’t just girls.
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