Latest Lung Update, 1/7/14: I
sent the more positive update to my health update list yesterday, but last
night developed problems. I was shaky and weak, and started a headache in the
evening which is unusual for me. Tylenol didn't touch it. It diminished by
morning, but was still there. I went to bed at 8 pm, slept like the dead, woke
at ten and was awake a lot of the night. The headache and a flare up of benign prosatitis creating an ache in my lower stomach didn't help. Also developed a
mild sore throat, perhaps from the bronchoscopy, perhaps starting a cold. Didn't
have much apatite. Requiring 6 LPM of O2 to stay above 90% with activity. On
the plus side, the back muscle I blew out on Wednesday is a lot better. Maybe
the anesthesia from the bronch relaxed it. So I can do the FEV numbers, but
they were low this morning. I'm feeling better today, just tired. I talked to
my transplant coordinator. We will see how today and tomorrow at PT rehab goes,
before we decide if something else is needed. Hopefully not another admission
to the hospital. We shall see.
Lung Update 6/30/14: I
had my 20th Bronchoscopy today, done in surgery by Dr. Jim Maloney, my surgeon.
He considered the stent, but again decided against it. The BiPAP seems to be
helping hold the area open, and he has the same concerns about blocking off a
side passage with the stent as before. He cleaned out the mucus buildup and
stretched the area with a balloon. Most of the collapse is below the juncture
(anastomosis) where the new lung joins my body, but a little is above it. He is
concerned that down in the small tubes where they cannot see--or do anything
about--there may be narrowing, which is contributing to my hard breathing. The
problem is not just that it cuts down on my oxygen intake, but also that it
provides a breeding ground for infection, which is what almost got me on 5/27.
My O2 use was up after the bronch (it always is) and they debated keeping me.
But it settled a bit and they sent me home with instructions to come in if I
had problems. And on it goes.
Spent an hour Sunday night at 11pm and 45 minutes Monday
evening in the basement under tornado warnings. I blame Global Cooling.
All this prevented me from posting on Monday, so today's
post is long but has very interesting articles.
I have entered your personal email address in the BCC:
(Blind Carbon Copy) column and not in the To: or CC: column so your email
address is always hidden from spammers and everyone else. You should do the
same when sending group emails. ~Bob
General News and Comment
SCOTUS Sides With Hobby Lobby. By Christine Rousselle
Excerpt: In a victory for religious
freedom, the Supreme Court ruled today 5-4 in favor of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. in the case Burwell v. Hobby
Lobby (formerly named Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby). The case was the
strongest legal challenge to Obamacare since 2012. ... While still a legal
victory for Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., the decision is
limited to closely-held for-profit corporations, not non-profits such as Little
Sisters of the Poor. The decision is also strictly limited to the issue of
the contraception mandate, not other medical practices. (This is a BIGGIE, the
Supreme Court has hit ObamaCare on the attempt to force religious people to
violate their principles. Thank heavens! Obama is not doing well with the Court
lately, at long last some of the checks and balances are coming into play. Barely
in time, but better late than never. --Del )
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Even after this ruling, no one is preventing a
single female from accessing these drugs. Their doctors can prescribe them,
they can buy them over the counter, or whatever. No one is preventing that. The
ruling simply says that closely-held corporations do not have to pay for
them. Hobby Lobby isn’t restricting access to healthcare any more than Blantons
is restricting my access to its bourbon by pricing it at $45.
First Post-Hobby
Lobby Decision Halts Abortion-Pill Mandate for Nonprofit. By Matthew Clark
Excerpt: In the first post-Hobby Lobby decision issued
by an appellate court, the Eleventh
Circuit Court of Appeals has granted an injunction, halting the HHS
Mandate, to a nonprofit religious organization. The key aspect of this new
decision is that theSupreme
Court’s Hobby Lobby decision was confined to for-profit
businesses; this decision is the first application of the Supreme Court’s
ruling upholding religious liberty to cases involving nonprofits. It marks
another step towards the abortion-pill mandate’s defeat.
Tweet from Gov. Bobby Jindal @BobbyJindal
@BarackObama
is now googling “Can an Executive Order override Supreme Court?” #HobbyLobby
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/06/30/another-law-signed-by-bill-clinton-comes-back-to-bite-the-dems/
Excerpt: Fast forward to this morning when the Supreme
Court sided
with Hobby Lobby. The majority ruled that Hobby Lobby fell under the
umbrella of theReligious
Freedom Restoration Act. Who signed that bill? Bill! The RFRA was
sponsored in the U.S. Senate by some right-wing Republican named Chuck Schumer.
Excerpt: Birthdays are supposed to be times for celebration
and gift-giving. But America 's
upcoming birthday on the Fourth of July is a time when the gift most needed is
an urgent warning about the dangers of losing the things that have made this
country America -- and have
long made "America "
a ringing word of freedom, not only in this country but to people around the
world. All is not lost. But all could be lost -- (Dr. Sowell is more
hopefully than I am, because no one could get elected on a platform of doing
what needs to be done. Thus Democrats and Republicans both kick the ever-larger
can towards the fiscal and economic collapse, followed by political and social
collapse, that is coming. ~Bob)
Interesting: Martin Armstrong Warns Civil Unrest Is
Rising Everywhere: "This Won't End Pretty"
Excerpt: The greatest problem we have is
misinformation. People simply do not comprehend why and how the economic
policies of the post-war era are imploding. This whole agenda of socialism has
sold a Utopian idea that the State is there for the people yet it is run by
lawyers following their own self-interest. The pensions created for those in government
drive the cost of government up exponentially with time. The political forces
blame the rich and this merely creates a class warfare with no resolution for
the future. Even confiscating all the wealth of the so-called rich will not
sustain the system. Consequently, we just have to crash and burn and start all
over again.
White House Review of
Veterans Administration Finds 'Corrosive Culture'
Excerpt: An interim report on the Veterans Affairs
Department delivered to President Barack Obama found that the VA’s medical
system is hobbled by management with little accountability and a “corrosive
culture” that has led to widespread personnel problems. A summary of the report
by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rob Nabors released today also said the
14-day standard set for scheduling appointments is “arbitrary, ill-defined and
misunderstood” and may have motivated personnel at VA facilities to falsify
records. Not that anyone had ever previously talked about the problems
there.... well, maybe they did, but nobody high up was listening. The question
is, will they really get ready for the major project (read "battle"
for that) which it will take to really break the culture and get responsible
professional managers in there? --Del. Can't be true, del. in 2008, Obama
promised to make the VA a leader in healthcare and we know he strictly honors
his promises. See next two items. In Chicago
they call a corrosive culture "business as usual." ~Bob)
Obama 2008: VA will
be 'leader of health care reform'
http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/obama-2008-va-will-become-a-leader-of-health-care-reform/#DsCpGRC1OPwCLPbl.99
http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/obama-2008-va-will-become-a-leader-of-health-care-reform/#DsCpGRC1OPwCLPbl.99
Excerpt: In vowing to make the Veterans Administration the
model of national health-care reform back in 2008, the outlook for
scandal-plagued Obamacare suddenly seems even worse.
WND has discovered that during his transition into the White
House in 2008-09, President Obama proposed in his “Obama-Biden” plan to
“make the VA a leader of national health care reform so that veterans get the
best care possible.”
Obama told of
Veterans Affairs health care debacle as far back as 2008
Excerpt: The Obama administration received clear notice more
than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate
waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny
veterans timely health care — problems that have turned into a growing scandal.
Veterans Affairs officials warned the Obama-Biden transition team in the weeks
after the 2008 presidential election that the department shouldn’t trust the
wait times that its facilities were reporting.
Important--Worth Reading
Excerpt: More than two-thirds of America 's
youth would fail to qualify for military service because of physical,
behavioral or educational shortcomings, posing challenges to building the next
generation of soldiers even as the U.S. draws down troops from
conflict zones.
The military deems many youngsters ineligible due to
obesity, lack of a high-school diploma, felony convictions and
prescription-drug use for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. But others
are now also running afoul of standards for appearance amid the growing
popularity of large-scale tattoos and devices called ear gauges that create
large holes in earlobes. (In my past conversations with Marine recruiters, the
standards being imposed really eliminate plenty of young men and women who
might make fine Marines. The now excessive worry about tattoos of any sort is
an example. Yes, nothing offensive, nothing on the face and hands, but after
that, what damn difference does it make? No high school diploma? A large
fraction of the men who fought WW2 didn't have one, but at least let the kid
get the GED and accept that. No drug use, ever? I'd rather have someone honest
enough to talk about it and who has matured enough to be past it, most
especially if it's just smoking some grass. Hey, I have news, the
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF smoked one hell of a lot of grass in high school, has always
been quite open about it. While we're at it, one DUI can totally ruin a career
for officers and noncoms? This is nuts. OK, we don't want alcoholics running
the military (although many did in the past and were good at it!), but dial
back the rigor on all this stuff, it's just crazy to expect perfection from
everyone who puts on the uniform. When you get down to only 29% of young men
being supposedly fit for the service, that is really an indication of setting
some bars too high. In this day and age I can believe that a large fraction
won't be suitable, maybe even a third, but after that it's getting ridiculous. Who
do they think have fought all our wars, only the smartest, cleanest, purest of
the population? They'd look at the Marines of 1942 and faint dead away. --Del. One of the problems
is that enforcing discipline on kids who need it is especially difficult in an
era where the PC police--who would never serve themselves--handicap the
military. The days of a sergeant taking a PFC out behind the barracks and
straightening him out are gone. Judges used to say, "Four in the Corps or
ten in the pen. With tough discipline some made good Marines. Some were great
in combat, but problems in garrison. Today, disciplining them is more trouble
than thy are worth. Too many of the intellectuals, who never heard a hot fired
in anger and would suffer sever gastro-intestinal distress if their kid joined
up, think tough training is brutality. But if you are going to send men into
battle--the purpose of the military for those who think it's a Petri dish for
every PC nostrum--then soft training is a brutality. It gets men killed or
crippled mentally, and doesn't weed out those who will break, endangering
themselves and everyone else. ~Bob. A people gets the
army it deserves. Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force, too. And the people,
led by a craven and ignorant press, and a corrupt, self-serving political
class, demand zero defects. So they're going to deserve not only the armed
forces they demand, they're going to deserve what they'll get if those armed
forces fail on the battlefield, too. But the only armed force that shows zero
defects is that one that never does anything. --Tom Kratman, LtCol ,
USA (Ret.) Col. Kratman is
the author of several excellent military science fiction books, including the
terrific Carrara
series--and a blog reader! ~Bob)
Since
Tuesday, 01 July 1919... By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Listening to Sledge, a Marine (artilleryman) I know, who fought in
some of those god-awful, bloody battles (e.g., Gavutu; Tulagi; Guadalcanal;
Tarawa) and spent time in the water (abandoning ship when a Japanese
destroyer attacked their ship), came to mind.
Lee Marvin: Actor, WWII Combat Veteran Speaks on Combat
Academy Award winning actor Lee Marvin (The Dirty Dozen)
(The Delta Force) speaks about combat in this USMC training film on combat
leadership. Marvin is a combat veteran of WWII and a recipient of the Purple
Heart. He is buried in Arlington
National Cemetery
IRS Spent $4 Billion
on IT Over the Past 5 Years?
http://lastresistance.com/6295/irs-spent-4-billion-past-5-years/
http://lastresistance.com/6295/irs-spent-4-billion-past-5-years/
Excerpt: The reason the IRS had computer problems – where
emails miraculously disappeared, and hard drives crashed conveniently – is that
they had budgetary constraints. I guess they were spending
too much on lavish
conferences to be able to budget just a little more to electronic data
storage. At least that was what IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said. But
records indicate that over the past 5 years or so, the IRS spent $4
billion on IT services.
Racist: Chomsky: Obama ‘Determined To Demolish The
Foundations Of Our Civil Liberties’
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/04/chomsky-obama-determined-to-demolish-the-foundations-of-our-civil-liberties/
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/04/chomsky-obama-determined-to-demolish-the-foundations-of-our-civil-liberties/
Excerpt: Progressive hero Noam Chomsky is terrified of the
surveillance state that has developed during the tenure of President Barack
Obama, calling it a grave threat to our fundamental civil liberties. ... "
In other ways too, the constitutional lawyer in the White House seems
determined to demolish the foundations of our civil liberties. The principle of
the presumption of innocence, which dates back to Magna Carta 800 years ago,
has long been dismissed to oblivion.” (Huh. turns out that even a far left
Progressive can be a racist and criticize Obama. ~Bob)
Professors Suddenly Don't Like ObamaCare Either
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-obama-care/062714-706685-professors-suddenly-dont-like-obamacare-either.htm
Excerpt: After years of singing the praises of universal
health care, college professors are now shocked at how badly it has turned out
— for them. Adjunct professors are steamed at the way their employers are interpreting
the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate, which forces them to cover
full-time but not part-time workers. Typical of liberals, they blame their
employers instead of the job-killing law they supported. *gee, tough. But it
should say "The job-killing president they elected, by turning students
into mush-header progressives ignorant of the laws of economics." ~Bob)
Obamacare Increases Marginal Tax Rate on Labor by Six
Percentage Points. By Andrew Lundeen
Excerpt: “During a period that included more than a dozen
tax increases, the ACA is arguably the largest as a single piece of
legislation, adding about six percentage points to the marginal tax rate faced,
on average, by workers in the economy.
Obama pursuing
executive actions on immigration, after House effort stalls
Excerpt: President Obama vowed Monday to bypass Congress and
pursue unilateral changes to the country's immigration system, defying House
Republicans who say his executive actions are part of the
problem. ( “I taught constitutional law for ten years. I take the
Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that were facing right
now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the
executive branch and not go through Congress at all, and that’s what I intend
to reverse when I’m President of the United States of America.” --Barack
Obama, 2008)
Border Patrol Looking
To House Immigrants In Abandoned Warehouses Along Rio Grande
Excerpt: More than 52,000 children have entered the country
illegal in recent months, many of them coming into the U.S. through South Texas .
Former Zapata
County Sheriff Gonzales, who now works
as a consult with law enforcement agencies along the Texas border, says space is running out to
house the children and adults that are coming across. (This story is just going
downhill by the day. --Del )
Mexican Military Helicopter Flies Into U.S.
Excerpt: According to a local
news report from KVOA
News 4 out of Tucson , Arizona ,
at least one Mexican military helicopter crossed into the United States early Thursday morning, shot at
Border Patrol agents using lethal force and then flew back to Mexico . Once
the helicopter was back on the ground in Mexico , an apology was issued.
(Have you heard this on the national news? --Don. And who gave them the
helicopter--wanna bert? ~Bob)
Infographic: The
Taxpayer Burden of Illegal Immigration in California
Excerpt: Yesterday, FAIR released a new
study examining the taxpayer burden of illegal immigration in
California, which found providing education, health care, law enforcement, and
social and government services to illegal aliens and their dependents costs
California taxpayers $25.3 billion a year. This is an increase of some $4.7
billion since FAIR’s 2010 study was released. These costs amount to a $2,370 a
year burden per California household headed by
a U.S.
citizen.
Tweet from Meta World Data @Pqlyur1
We can't afford to deport tens of thousands of illegal
immigrant kids, but apparently we can afford perpetual welfare benefits for
them.
It’s not racist when
Whoopi says it! ‘Spoken like a true white guy,’ she slams guest
Excerpt: The beneficiary of her racial stereotype was Blaze
TV’s Will Cain, who would have brought the house down had he reciprocated
by calling Whoopi a “true black woman.” (Haven't taken anything she says
seriously since she said that the famous director Roman Polanski having oral,
vaginal and anal sex with a drugged 13-yearold girl "wasn't rape
rape." ~Bob
100% of U.S.
Excerpt: The Center for Immigration Studies reports All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants. Actually,
greater than 100% of jobs went to immigrants because the number of
non-immigrants holding a job is negative, and the total must equal
100%. On a population adjusted basis, the numbers look horrific.
Population-wise, native US
citizens account for two-thirds of the working-age population growth, yet fewer
work today.
Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/06/100-of-employment-growth-since-2000.html#fp7LVJpBS5vqbqkS.99
Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/06/100-of-employment-growth-since-2000.html#fp7LVJpBS5vqbqkS.99
Worth Reading , from 12/13: Two Americas : The Democrats are right, there are
two Americas
Excerpt: It’s not the haves and the have nots, it’s the dos
and the don’ts. Some people do their duty as Americans, to obey the law and
support themselves and contribute to society, and others don’t. That’s the
divide in America .
... America
is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the
differences in our efforts. And by the false philosophy that says one man’s
success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man’s victimization.
Sources: Obama to
nominate ex-P&G head to lead Veterans Affairs
Excerpt: President Obama plans to nominate former Procter
and Gamble executive Robert McDonald to lead the Department of Veterans
Affairs, sources confirm to Fox News. ... While there, he was known for
trying to make steep cuts to the company's large staff, but was also replaced
last year for various reasons.
Export-Import Bank is a Petri dish of corruption and graft.
By Timothy P. Carney
Excerpt: Former Congressman
William J. Jefferson is in a federal prison in Oakdale , La. Jefferson .
Federal employee Johnny Gutierrez and three colleagues were recently suspended
from their jobs, pending investigations into kickbacks and "attempts to
steer federal contracts to favored companies," the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The common
thread in these cases -- and many other federal fraud cases -- is the Export-Import
Bank of the United
States . (No wonder the Democrats ar fighting
to keep it. ~Bob)
For every winner
Export-Import Bank creates, there's also a loser. By Timothy P. Carney
Excerpt: A vast majority of Ex-Im’s financing subsidizes the
10 largest exporters in the country. Yet nearly all Democrats (who supposedly
hate the privileges of Big Business) and many Republicans (who supposedly
believe in free enterprise) defend the agency.
WaPo: Older women bear the brunt of higher insurance
costs under Obamacare
Excerpt: The academics’ report, however, shows that
women age 55 to 64 will face a huge spike in cost when they go out to buy
individual insurance on the federal exchange. These women bear the brunt of the
increased premiums and out of pocket expenses after the Affordable Care
Act. (The Democrats' #WaronWomen. ~Bob)
What liberal media won't tell you: School shooting deaths
down, not up, across America
Excerpt: While even one death is too many, the number of
children killed in school shootings has declined over the last couple of
decades. The drop is even larger than the overall decline in the murder rate.
Things Go Better With
Koch
Excerpt: Radical liberal Lawrence O'Donnell has spent most of
five years spewing hate toward the Koch brothers and their donations to
conservative political causes. Using his MSNBC show "The Last Word",
O'Donnell has ripped the Kochs while totally ignoring the liberal billionaire
big spenders in his own party.
Tweet from Liberal Liberator @LibralLiberator
When the Clinton 's came out
of the W.H. she was so broke she couldn't pay attention...Hence Benghazi .. She isn't
healthy enough to be POTUS
Old, but worth remembering: The long-forgotten racial
attitudes and policies of Woodrow Wilson
Excerpt: Wilson
is widely and correctly remembered — and represented in our history books — as
a progressive Democrat who introduced many liberal reforms at home and fought
for the extension of democratic liberties and human rights abroad. But on the
issue of race his legacy was, in fact, regressive and has been largely
forgotten. Born in Virginia and raised in Georgia and South Carolina ,
Wilson was a
loyal son of the old South who regretted the outcome of the Civil War. He used
his high office to reverse some of its consequences.
Confab of Climate Experts to Challenge Global Warming
"Consensus." By William F. Jasper
Excerpt: Climate scientists and noted researchers from a
variety of disciplines and all parts of the world will be converging on Las Vegas ,
Nevada
CO2: A special
cartoon worth watching
Wow, the most detailed treatment of the science involved
with CO2 I've seen in a really cute cartoon format. --Del
EPA spends $1.6
million on hotel for ‘Environmental Justice’ conference
Excerpt: The Environmental Protection Agency will spend
more than $1 million on hotel accommodations for an “Environmental Justice”
conference this fall. The agency posted its intention to contract with the Renaissance
Arlington Local Capital View Hotel for its upcoming public meeting, for which
it will need to book 195 rooms for 24 days.
Bastardi: ‘No end to
excuses’ as Antarctic sea ice breaks all time record
Excerpt: Is there no end to excuses for busted climate
forecasts?
Scientists and
Studies predict ‘imminent global COOLING’ ahead – Drop in global temps ‘almost
a slam dunk’
Excerpt: Growing number of scientists are predicting global
cooling: Russia ’s
Pulkovo Observatory: ‘We could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250
years’ (If we do get cooling, it will hurt. Warming has some winners, increased
food production. Cooling none. ~Bob)
Obamacare Death Spiral? Newly-Insured Are Sicker. By Kevin Glass
Excerpt: People enrolled in new plans under the health law
are showing higher rates of serious health conditions than other insurance
customers, according to an early analysis of medical claims, putting pressure
on insurers around the country as they prepare to propose rates for next year. Among
those health-law marketplace enrollees who have seen a doctor or other
health-care provider in the first quarter of this year, around 27% have
significant health issues such as diabetes, psychiatric conditions, asthma,
heart problems or cancer, the data show.
Stupid: Robbed gas-station store puts magical “no
gun” sign on door
Excerpt: WDAM TV reports that the man with the CWP saw
attempted robber 29-year-old LamontWilliams stabbing the female store
manager behind the counter. So the armed Good Samaritan took out his concealed
gun, for which he has a permit, and held Williams at gunpoint
until the police arrived. ... It has just been confirmed that Keith’s Superstore
has posted a “No Guns” signs on their front doors. The picture
of their entry doors is below.
NY Firearms Buyback
Nets Broken BB Guns
Excerpt: A New
York gun buyback scheme promoted by Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman turned into a complete flop after it was protested by Second
Amendment activists and netted just 30 firearms in total, some of
which were broken BB guns. (Not a complete flop. The BB gun owners will now
have the down payment to buy a real gun. ~Bob)
Chinese teens
sneaking in through the southern border
The article shows the routing they take, and how the INS is
aware of this traffic. At this point, everyone in the world with any access at
all to media knows that you can sneak across our southern border. This is NOT a
good thing. Could the border be made airtight? No, it's just too long and too
irregular. Could it be made much, much tighter than it is now? Absolutely, but
it would take expanding the Border Patrol (or somehow reinforcing it with
National Guard troops), building really tough fencing and using a whole lot of
observation technology (electronics of various forms) to detect people passing,
some quiet design choppers with IR capacity to find groups of people at night,
and a few other ideas on detecting people. It's not like this would take the
resources of the D-Day invasion, or a trillion dollars. And once it was in
place, and people started getting caught and sent back frequently, the flow of
traffic would automatically slow down. And no stupid holding people caught at
our expense, ship them back over the border ASAP, maybe after dipping a finger
in indelible ink so they will be marked for a while. And not just the Mexicans,
everyone goes back to Mexico ,
to make them a Mexican problem. That's the only way Mexico will start to make it more
difficult for people to come into their territory to get to our border. What
this problem takes to make headway against it is will, the real will to attack
it and pay what it costs to really deal with it. In the end, we'd spend less
money than it takes for the society to handle what goes on now. --Del
Worth Reading
Excerpt: I obviously have disdain for Hoover ’s big-government policies, but I also
am extremely irritated that – as Jonah
Goldberg explained – he allowed the left to create an utterly bogus
narrative that the Great Depression was caused by capitalism and free markets. Indeed,
the Center for Freedom and Prosperity produced
a video demonstrating that the statist policies of both Hoover and Roosevelt
helped trigger, deepen, and lengthen the economic slump.
Breaking EPA’s Climate Science Secrecy Barrier. By Paul Driessen
Excerpt: Using billions of our tax dollars, these government
entities fund the research they use, select research that supports their
regulatory agenda (while ignoring studies that do not), and handpick the
“independent” experts who peer-review the research. As a recent
analysis reveals, the agencies also give “significant financial
support” to United Nations and other organizations that prepare computer models
and other assessments. They then use the results to justify regulations that
will cost countless billions of dollars and affect the lives, livelihoods,
liberties, living standards, health, welfare and life spans of every American.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/antarctic-sea-ice-growing/2014/06/29/id/579853#ixzz3680V4utp
Excerpt: The sea ice coverage around Antarctica
over the weekend marked a record high, with the ice surrounding the continent
measuring at 2.07 million square kilometers, according to an environmentalist
and author who says the ice there has actually been increasing since 1979
despite continued warnings of global warming. The new record was posted for the
first time by the University
of Illinois Del )
A 1922 newspaper
article reported that "radical change in climatic conditions" was
melting Arctic ice and disrupting wildlife.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/science/globalwarming1922.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/science/globalwarming1922.asp
Excerpt: The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are
growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot,
according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen , Norway
Newspaper Reversal: 'We Were Wrong' -- Obama Worse than
Bush
Excerpt: The Billings Gazette, a Montana newspaper that endorsed President
Obama over John McCain in 2008 (but went with Romney in 2012)
admitted Friday that they were wrong -- Obama is in fact worse than his
predecessor, George W. Bush. Apparently, the potential collapse of Iraq (and the
disastrous worldwide consequences sure to follow) was the last
straw. (This rates a serious WOW. If you go to the link to the Gazette,
you can read their careful listing of all the things that have led them to the
reluctant conclusion that this Administration has simply not been competent in
performing, and has been "more opaque and difficult" and not remotely
transparent as promised, so that it ranks right down with the Nixon presidency.
Finally it's gotten bad enough, long enough, that even some of those who
believed in, and wanted to believe in, the Hope and Change guy cannot ignore
the realities anymore. I've been waiting for this for a long time, I thought it
would have to happen, but foolish me, I figured by the end of the first four
years it was overdue. It took even more shoes dropping loudly to finally
overcome the reluctance of some (who still had operating forebrains) to face
the sad and discouraging truth. --Del )
Supreme Court: Home
health-care workers can’t be required to pay union fees
Excerpt: Thousands of home health-care workers cannot be
forced to pay union fees if they are not in a union, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, dealing a
defeat to organized labor and foreshadowing a potentially far more serious blow
to come.
71% Think IRS Likely
to Have Destroyed E-mails to Hide Guilt
The other 29% think the dog ate them. ~Bob
Don’t Mess with
Messiahs: Whenever things go wrong, it’s the fault of those
obstructionists in Congress. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: The critics, the cynics in Washington ,
they’ve written me off more times than I can count.”), he lambasted the
partisan culture of Washington .
He lashed out at the Tea Party, the House Republicans, his opponents in
general, and all those who would unreasonably oppose his blanket amnesties, his
climate-change taxes and regulations, the shutdown of the Keystone-pipeline
project, Obamacare, and $9 trillion in new debt.
Mexican troops kill
22 suspected gang members in shootout
Excerpt: The shooting started after soldiers came under fire
from the suspected gang members, resulting in a gunfight lasting several
minutes, the government said. Three women, alleged kidnapping victims, were
freed and one soldier was wounded but is in stable condition, the statement
added.
44% Think Obama Less
Faithful to U.S.
Excerpt: Most Democrats – and one-third of all voters –
think President Obama should take action alone if Congress won’t agree with
what he wants to do. But a plurality already believes the president has been
less faithful to the Constitution than most of his predecessors in the White
House. Imagine what the numbers would be if the media treated him as it treated
Bush, rather than providing cover for him. "The biggest problems that
we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and
more power to the Executive Branch and not go through Congress at all. And
that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America ." -
Sen. Barack Obama, March 31, 2008. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Israeli government
confirms to Fox News that the bodies of three kidnapped teenage boys were found
in Hebron in the West Bank.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/30/bodies-israeli-kidnapped-teens-found-government-confirms/
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/30/bodies-israeli-kidnapped-teens-found-government-confirms/
Well, one was an American, so expect Obama to take strong
action...oh, wait. He was a Jew. Never mind--nothing will happen. Scratch a
progressive and if you don't find a Star of David, you are likely to find an
anti-Semite. ~Bob
Excerpt: The bodies of three murdered Israeli teenagers,
16-year-old Naftali who liked to play basketball, 16-year-old Gilad who had
just finished a scuba diving course and 19-year-old Eyal with his guitar, will
be met by the same ghastly parade of pallbearers who accompany every victim of
terrorism. The reporters will scribble down something about “settlements” and
the “Cycle of Violence.” The diplomats will urge restraint and remind everyone
that the only solution can be found through negotiations with the terrorists.
And the pundits will put it all into perspective burying them under layers of
words and weighting their coffins down with stones of forgetfulness/
Excerpt: The search for the three abducted Israeli
teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Frenkel (who held Israeli and
American citizenship), ended on June 30thwith the grisly discovery of their
bodies in a shallow grave near the West Bank city of Hebron. ... Despite
Hamas’s praising of the kidnappings as to which two of its operatives are
suspected of being directly involved and Hamas’s continued defiance, there was
not a word in President Obama’s statement on the deaths of the three youths
indicating any intention to reverse his decision to establish ties with the
recently sworn-in Fatah-Hamas unity transitional government.
Excerpt: The Israeli Air Force carried out a “precision
strike” against 34 targets in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the army said. The
strikes came after more than 20 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza since late Sunday, it said. There were
no immediate reports of injuries. (No wonder the left hates Israel and the
Jews--since WWII, they have started shooting back! ~Bob)
ISIS/Lamont
What to do about terrorist militants ISIS and Lamont. US
specifically aiding Shia dominated government in Iraq
can leave the impression we are are anti-Sunni and may even appear to be
aligned with Iran .
Saudi Arabia
and many other oil producing countries are Sunni dominated. Our role should be
to support our own national interests and protection from dangerous terrorist
militants intending to attack the US . Our role should be very clear
that we are supporting our own interests and not the Iraqi government. Our
military action should begin by attacking via fixed wing
aircraft/drones/special forces, ISIS command & control in Syria where the
majority of their forces are located. This will also serve to aid the moderate
fighters trying to overthrow the Assad government. With this approach we will
have very limited forces on the ground. Next, attack the ISIS command &
control in Iraq .
Go for the heart of ISIS . Take it out and
their offensive operation to create a caliphate where they can plan to attack
the free world will fall apart. The question now is whether Obama will continue
to sit on the sidelines, and lead from the rear. If so, we have a serious
problem. Sending 300 advisers to Iraq is no solution. Giving $500
billion dollars worth of weapons to moderate Muslim fighters in Syria is no
solution, and will take too long to make any difference. ISIS
will likely take these weapons anyway. Bad concept and not a strategy to stop
ISIS and establish a moderate government in Syria . and preclude Iraq from
falling apart as a nation. --Geoff Higginbotham, MajGen USMC (Ret.). (The
general is a blog reader who often sends me news items for the blog. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the
jihadist group that spans both Iraq
and Syria ,
is no more. Today, the group, which controls vast areas of the two countries,
announced the formation of the Caliphate, changed its name to the Islamic
State, and named Abu Bakr al Baghdadi (a.k.a. Abu Du'a) as its caliph. Baghdadi
is now to be referred to as "khalifah Ibrahim."
Obama in 2011: ‘We’re
Leaving Behind A Stable And Self-Reliant Iraq
if you like your Iraq ,
you can keep your Iraq .
Period. ~Bob
Terrorists Mock Obama
in Latest Video
Excerpt: ISIS released a
new video on
Sunday titled – “The End of Sykes-Picot.” At the end of the video a
laughing jihadist cruising in a Ford 350 mocks Obama. The Islamist Abu Saffiya
from Chile ,
shows off the spoils of war and raises the Islamic flag at a former Iraqi
military base. Another Islamist mocks Obama at the end of the video: “Obama,
did you prepare enough diapers for your soldiers?”
Pakistani Lovers
Beheaded in Public By Outraged Family Members
Excerpt: A couple was beheaded in cold blood by the family
of the girl over love marriage in Satrah village of Daska
Shooter ID'd in
triple killing in Stafford
Excerpt: Investigators say Fahad Mughal, 18, used a shotgun
and an AR-15 assault rifle to kill his brother, Faheem Mughal, 23, and sister
Rebecca Mughal, 15, before killing himself. ... Funeral services for the
victims are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at Houston 's Al Noor mosque.
Excerpt: The Iraqi military offensive to retake Tikrit, the
provincial capital of Salahaddin province, appears to have suffered its first
setback as the military withdrew troops from the city after heavy fighting. The
Iraqi troops pulled back from much of Tikrit after a ground offensive, which
started yesterday, "met stiff resistance" from insurgent forces in
the city, the BBC reported.
Excerpt: Unverified footage posted to YouTube on
Saturday appears to show the Israeli air strike carried
out Friday afternoon on a car carrying two operatives belonging to
the Popular Resistance Committees, a coalition of armed terrorist groups in Gaza . The footage shows a
vehicle driving along a coastal road before being struck. Passersby remain
seemingly unharmed. (Pass the popcorn--good entertainment. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Seven children, as young as one year old, were
among the 15 civilians summarily executed in an attack on two farming families,
reportedly carried out by fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS ), Amnesty International claimed in a report published yesterday.
Boko Haram: 100
feared killed as insurgents attack Chibok
Excerpt: Five churches, including COCIN, EYN and Deeper Life
Bible Church
Excerpt: According to Yemeni security officials, fighters from al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) carried out an attack on Seyoun
Airport in Hadramout province in
eastern Yemen
on June 26. The strategically significant city of Seyoun , the second-largest city in the
lawless province, and was also targeted last month, when it was stormed by AQAP
on May 23. Three Yemeni soldiers who had been stationed at an
airport entrance used for both civilian and military purposes were reported killed
in the recent attack. The AQAP assault team took control of various sections of
the airport and managed to seize the flight control tower.
The Curse of Cain. By
Daniel Greenfield
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-curse-of-cain.html
Excerpt: Abel is forever provoking Cain who rises up and kills him. And if only Abel hadn't had so many sheep, if only he hadn't built so well, if only he hadn't made the desert bloom, if only he hadn't won so many wars and if only G-d didn't appear to favor him. Cain sows fields of corpses of the innocent for the Lord and he still does not understand why his sacrifice is not accepted and why the earth he dwells on is cursed. Abel does his best to appease Cain with gifts of earth, but the earth is useless to Cain.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-curse-of-cain.html
Excerpt: Abel is forever provoking Cain who rises up and kills him. And if only Abel hadn't had so many sheep, if only he hadn't built so well, if only he hadn't made the desert bloom, if only he hadn't won so many wars and if only G-d didn't appear to favor him. Cain sows fields of corpses of the innocent for the Lord and he still does not understand why his sacrifice is not accepted and why the earth he dwells on is cursed. Abel does his best to appease Cain with gifts of earth, but the earth is useless to Cain.
Excerpt: The ever-clueless Daily Mail calls this a
“Nazi-style” vision, when it is all based on tenets of Islamic law. The
prohibition on church bells: “Such non-Muslim subjects [of the Islamic
state] are obliged to comply with Islamic rules that pertain to the safety and
indemnity of life, reputation, and property. In addition, they…are forbidden to
openly display wine or pork, (A: to ring church bells or display
crosses,) recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their
funerals and feastdays…” — ‘Umdat al-Salik o11.5 And as for the red
collars, Abu Waleed didn’t invent the idea that Christians and Jews in Muslim
lands should wear distinctive marks. Even before Iran became Khomeini’s laboratory of
the new Islamic state, in some areas of Iran Jews were made to wear distinctive
yellow patches on their clothing as late as 1950. Distinctive dress for Muslims
and Jews was first mandated over a millennium ago by the Caliph Ja’far
al-Mutawakkil (847-861).
Nigeria's Boko Haram
crisis: Deadly bomb hits Maiduguri
Excerpt: At least 18 people have been killed in an explosion
at a market in Maiduguri , north-eastern Nigeria ,
a medical worker has told the BBC.
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