The Philosophy of the Old Jarhead Blog
The Old Jarhead is a blog of political news and conservative opinion, that has had almost
1,300,000 page views since founded in October of 2008, is read in many counties
(Iran ?
Indonesia ?
Russia ?
Go figure.) and gets up to 4,000 page views a week. Plus I throw in some humor
and human interest pieces that catch my attention for seasoning. I try to
include foreign sources and info you won’t get in the MSM, but I often use
links to pieces in the Washington Post,
New York Times, Politico, Reuters and other left-of-center sources. No one is
required to read it, or any of the links. A majority of the pieces are sent to
me by readers, for which I’m grateful, others come from newsfeeds I subscribe
to. I get some from Twitter, but often don’t have time to look at my feeds
there. I stop sending the link to people who become nasty or too angry. I used
to forward political items, but was sending too many e-mails to my list, so a
few years ago, I started collecting them on the blog to access in one place. I
use maybe 50% of the conservative pieces sent me, probably less than 5% of the
liberal opinion sent, usually to illustrate their views. Readers who don’t like
that are welcome to start their own blogs. Blogs are free and so is speech in America
right now, despite leftist efforts to outlaw “hate speech” they disagree with
and Islamist efforts to outlaw criticism of Islam, while retaining the right to
describe other religions in vile terms. I try to avoid items that will turn off
thoughtful centrists and leftists or low-information independents, including
“red meat” pieces with intemperate language or wild speculation, conspiracy
theories with no supporting facts and silly distractions like the so-called
“birther” issue (but I don’t always succeed). I predicted correctly five years
ago the “birther” thing was going nowhere, was a huge waste of time and
resources, and played into the hands of the left, much as the impeachment of
Bill Clinton did in the 1990s. (I said so at the time.) I do include some
things I don’t agree with that I think readers might find of interest. Readers
are requested to read all items critically and with skepticism—just like a
newspaper! Readers who send formatted pieces (title, link, and a fair-use
excerpt of no more than three sentences unless the piece is very short, than
fewer) to tartanmarine(at)gmail.com have a higher chance of my using them than
people who just send a link. I often include thoughtful comments from
contributors. (Tell me if you want you full name used.) A piece without a link
has a much lower chance of being
used—it depends on how interesting it is and how much time I have right then to
search for it, and my time is limited right now due to managing the lung
transplant I received on December 23, 2013, which has developed complications.
I understand if you don’t have the time to format or even to find a link—please
understand I don't either. There are no ads on my blog, no fees and I receive
no income from it. Now that I've retired, that might need to change, but for
now, that’s how it is. I do promote my books, with the royalties going to
charity. Thanks for reading and contributing. ~Bob.
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Book Recommendation: The New Vichy
Written under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, whose great book Life at the Bottom I consider a must-read. In The New Vichy Syndrome, British Psychiatrist Anthony Daniels turns
his penetrating insights and eviscerating wit to Europe ,
including the Muslim problem, the European Union and the general "miserabilist"
world view of modern Europeans. He draws the surprising conclusion that the
growth of the Muslim population is not a threat unless Europe
allows it to be, by defending the values of their societies against the
minority of Islamists and not protecting the majority of Muslims who want to
live peacefully in a modern society from the violent ones. Of course, he
recognizes that the will to defend values--or values themselves--may not be
present in most Europeans today, but he says the Muslim problem is a problem in
us, due to a lack of courage. The misearbilist (his fine word) world view
adopted by too many of his fellow Europeans he traces back to the devastating
history of the conflicts in the 20th century and the los by Europe
of world leadership--or even importance. Europeans went from being proud of
their history and accomplishments to being contemptuous of it. Daniels finds
both unremitting positive or negative views of the past equally in error;
balance is needed. On the EU, he heaps contempt. Take this quote about EU
bureaucrats: "You can spot a feeder at the European trough... a mile off:
having for a long time viewed the world exclusively through the window of an
official limousine, having lunched and dined heavily for many years (never at
his own expense, of course), and having developed a special langue de bois in which streams of grammatically
formed verbiage are carefully studded with words of positive connotation that
makes it difficult to argue against him, he has developed the gray, immobile,
slab-faced countenance of members of the former Soviet Politburo. Alas, it
seems there are a large number of volunteers--mainly mediocrities, of
course--for this kind of life. It seems to them eminently preferable to earning
a living." Could we not write the same about many of the parasites living
off us in Washington ?
He has equally pointed words for many politicians, Americans included. This
book is well worth reading.
Worth Reading : Revisionists
Against America
Excerpt: He recalled how, as someone growing up in China , he had
rejoiced when he heard of the bombing, knowing that it could deliver his people
from the horrors inflicted on them by the Japanese. That, of course, was not
the politically correct response, as he soon discovered from the backlash,
hostility and ostracism that eventually culminated in his leaving the school.
The anointed do not want anyone upsetting their vision. When they say
"diversity," this is not what they have in mind. (I'm reading Barbarians Inside the Gates, a 2001
collection of Dr. Sowell's columns from the 1990s. All so far are excellent and
still relevant. I will link to some of the better ones when I can find them on
line. ~Bob
Excerpt: A federal judge in the District of Columbia on Saturday overturned
the city’s total ban on residents being allowed to carry firearms outside their
home in a landmark decision for gun-rights activists.
Guinness Makes
Touching Tribute to Soldiers In Moving ‘Empty Chair’ Ad
Hillary Quote?
Have not verified. ~Bob. Excerpt: “My accomplishments as
Secretary of State? Well, I'm glad you asked! My proudest accomplishment in
which I take the most pride, mostly because of the opposition it faced early
on, you know… the remnants of prior situations and mindsets that were too
narrowly focused in a manner whereby they may have overlooked the bigger
picture and we didn’t do that and I’m proud of that. Very proud. I would say
that’s a major accomplishment.” - Hillary Clinton 11 March 2014 Does
anyone have any idea what in the name of common sense she just said ?
Gas station clerk
with MMA training surprises thieves
Excerpt: He was behind the counter when he noticed his
co-worker returning to the store after a run to the bank. Dissanyake saw two
men jump out of an SUV and attack his co-worker. They were trying to grab the
bank bag he was carrying. The store's surveillance cameras were recording as
Dissanayake ran outside and kicked one of the alleged robbers in the face.
US 11th Circuit Court
of Appeals Rules in Favor of the State of Florida
Excerpt: The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th
Circuit has ruled that doctors do not have the right to ask patients if they
own a firearm when unnecessary to a patient's care. This ruling is a
significant defeat for the gun control lobby and its allies. The Florida chapters of the American
Academies of Pediatrics and American College
of Physicians, along with a number of other groups and individuals backed by
the anti-gun community, filed this lawsuit against the State of Florida after Governor
Rick Scott signed a bill backed by the National Rifle Association in 2011.
Eleanor Holmes
Norton: ‘You don’t have a right to know’ about everything Obama administration
is up to
Excerpt: Del.
Eleanor Holmes Norton played down the importance of government transparency
during a House hearing Friday, speaking out against Republican-led
attempts to compel a White House official to appear before the Government and
Oversight Committee. “You don’t have a right to know everything in a
separation-of-powers government, my friend,” Holmes Norton, the nonvoting
delegate that represents Washington , D.C.
Tentative Deal
Reached on VA Reform.
Excerpt: The chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans
Affairs committees have reached a tentative agreement on a plan to improve
veterans' healthcare after they lashed out at each other over their competing bills
late last week. Rep. Jeff Miller, a Florida Republican, and Sen. Bernie
Sanders, a Vermont
independent who caucuses with Democrats, said Sunday they'll have a
news conference Monday to talk about a compromise plan to fix a
veterans' health program scandalized by long patient wait times and falsified
records covering up delays. (How much this means in regard to fixing the real
problem of that "toxic culture" in the top levels is unknown. But at
least it's getting a lot of attention in Congress, maybe something positive
will result. --Del )
Should the £26 Indian
Smart Phone Worry Apple?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/10995383/Should-the-26-Indian-smartphone-worry-Apple.html
Excerpt: But the real draw of the handset is its unprecedentedly low cost – at just £26 you could buy 21 of them for the cost of even the cheapest iPhone 5S from Apple. That makes its shortcomings seem rather insignificant. Recent research from IDC showed that the Indian smartphone market saw 186 per cent growth in the year to June, and more than three quarters of those were for low-end devices costing less than $200 (£120). A similar picture is emerging in other developing countries, and companies are quickly waking up to that potential. (Free markets and innovation! ~Bob)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/10995383/Should-the-26-Indian-smartphone-worry-Apple.html
Excerpt: But the real draw of the handset is its unprecedentedly low cost – at just £26 you could buy 21 of them for the cost of even the cheapest iPhone 5S from Apple. That makes its shortcomings seem rather insignificant. Recent research from IDC showed that the Indian smartphone market saw 186 per cent growth in the year to June, and more than three quarters of those were for low-end devices costing less than $200 (£120). A similar picture is emerging in other developing countries, and companies are quickly waking up to that potential. (Free markets and innovation! ~Bob)
From the email: Watch this, but get out the tissues (2
Boxes) This is a great video of our military guys who were held in North Vietnam
prisons. I had never seen this before and I had no idea how these guys
felt all these years about Nixon. Share this magnificent video with your
friends.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: History still isn’t sure and can never be certain
of the exact number of casualties. Christopher Clark, in “The Sleepwalkers”
(2013), puts it at 20 million military and civilian deaths and 21 million
wounded. The war unleashed Bolshevism, which brought communism, which in time
would kill tens of millions more throughout the world. (In 1997, “The Black
Book of Communism,” written by European academics, put the total number at a staggering
94 million.)
Excerpt: Michelle Nunn can come across as a
“lightweight,” “too liberal,” not a “real Georgian.” While she served as CEO
for the Points of Light Foundation, the organization gave grants to “inmates”
and “terrorists.” And her Senate campaign must feature images of her and her
family “in rural settings with rural-oriented imagery” because the
Atlanta-based candidate will struggle to connect with rural voters. These may
sound like attacks from the Senate candidate’s Republican rival, but in fact,
those are a few of the concerns expressed in her own campaign plan, which
sources say was posted online briefly in December and appears to have been
drafted earlier that month.
NYT Poll: Explaining Online Panels and the 2014
Midterms. By Nate Cohn
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/upshot/explaining-online-panels-and-the-2014-midterms.html?_r=1
The results offer a trove of nonpartisan data and show a
broad and competitive playing field heading into the final few months of the
campaign. The Republicans appear to hold a slight advantage in the fight for
the Senate and remain in a dominant position in the House. They need to pick up
six seats to gain Senate control, and they hold a clear advantage in races in
three states: South Dakota , Montana
and West Virginia .
The data from YouGov, an opinion-research firm that enjoyed success in 2012,
finds the G.O.P. with a nominal lead in five additional states.
'Let Me Google That
for You'—Now a Congressional Bill: Some think the government is wasting money
on an agency that search engines have made obsolete. One bill would eliminate
it altogether. By Alex Brown
Excerpt: A little-known branch of the Commerce Department
faces elimination, thanks to advances in technology and a snarkily named bill
from Sens. Tom Coburn and Claire McCaskill. The National Technical Information
Service compiles federal reports, serving as a clearinghouse for the
government's scientific, technical, and business documents. The NTIS then sells
copies of the documents to other agencies and the public upon request. It's
done so since 1950. But Coburn and McCaskill say it's hard to justify 150
employees and $66 million in taxpayer dollars when almost all of those
documents are now available online for free. (Lay off 150 Democrat-voting
government bureaucrats to save $66M? Bill is not going anywhere. ~Bob)
Is Detroit 's New Light Rail
Line America
Excerpt: Let's consider what the new light rail line will
mean for the people who live and work in the Motor City Detroit , so the walk from the car to the cube
takes just a few minutes. (Light rail is another liberal chimera, but part of
the progressive catechism. ~Bob)
Paying for Public
Employee Health Costs
Excerpt: Health care costs across the economy are rising, an
increase that becomes clear when analyzing how the cost of providing health
insurance for public employees has changed over the last decade: Adjusting for
inflation, in 2001, state and local governments spent $70 billion on health
insurance. In 2010, state and local governments spent $117 billion on health
insurance, an increase of $2,400 per public employee. While a private business
would address these costs by passing them on to workers (whether by giving
smaller wage increases, increasing cost sharing or providing less generous
coverage), public employment is generally governed by union contracts, which
limits the ability of governments to respond to financial problems by adjusting
wages and benefits.
Federal Poverty
Measurement Is Misleading
Excerpt: The poverty rate today sits at 15 percent, the same
rate that existed in the 1960s when the government's War on Poverty began,
explains Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation.
But why has poverty remained at the same level when federal
and state welfare spending has dramatically increased and is now 16 times
higher today than it was in the 1960s? Rector explains that the Census Bureau's
poverty measures are incomplete. Poverty is a measurement of income below a
specific threshold, yet income includes only wages and salaries -- not welfare
benefits. Thus, spending on the federal government's 80 welfare programs (which
provide cash, food, housing and medical care) are not included in a person's
income. (Q: If retirees who paid in get taxed on Social Security benefits, why
shouldn't welfare benefits also be taxed? A: Because the Democrats would then
hire bureaucrats to collect the tax, and increase the benefits to cover it.
~Bob)
Still fighting: The Delphi workers Obama robbed. By Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/07/25/still-fighting-the-delphi-workers-obama-robbed/
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/07/25/still-fighting-the-delphi-workers-obama-robbed/
Excerpt: The White House pretended to champion American
workers this week with gimmicky initiatives on federal job training and “workplace
innovation.” But far from the Beltway dog-and-pony show, a group
of American workers ruthlessly shafted by the Obama administration was finally
getting some real support — and inching
toward justice. It was five years ago this summer that 20,000 white-collar
nonunion workers from Delphi (a leading auto parts company spun off from GM in
1999) had their pensions sabotaged as
part of a rotten White House deal with Big Labor. Two court rulings this summer
have given the victims hope. Their plight must not be forgotten.
U.S. releases images
showing Russia firing into Ukraine
Excerpt: The United States released a series of satellite
images Sunday that appear to support its claims that Russian forces have fired
across the border into Ukraine to support rebels there, suggesting a new level
of direct Russian involvement in the conflict.
The images show artillery and rocket-blast signatures inside
Russia and craters formed by
the artillery strikes in Ukraine .
Two children among 13
killed in Ukraine
Excerpt: Thirteen people including two children were killed
Sunday in fierce clashes in the key insurgent holdout of Gorlivka in eastern Ukraine
where government troops are battling rebels, local authorities said.
Tweet from Kimberly Guilfoyle @kimguilfoyle
The only way Putin is in any danger from Obama is if he's
blocking the door of a fund raiser Obama's late to get to.
Fracking push gets
go-ahead across UK
Excerpt: Ministers will give the go-ahead on Monday for a
big expansion of fracking across Britain that will allow drilling in national parks and
other protected areas in "exceptional circumstances". The government
will invite firms to bid for onshore oil and gas licences for the first time in
six years, with about half of the country advertised for exploration.
James Carville: Obama
‘Doesn’t Really Care’ What The American People Think
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/24/james-carville-obama-doesnt-really-care-what-the-american-people-think/#ixzz38kPkX2pb
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/24/james-carville-obama-doesnt-really-care-what-the-american-people-think/#ixzz38kPkX2pb
Excerpt: Former Democratic strategist James Carville sounded
a little exasperated Thursday when he admitted President Obama
“doesn’t really care” what the American people think about his presidency. The
Fox News contributor sat down with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and “The Five” host
Andrea Tantaros to discuss President Obama’s consistently depressed poll
numbers. Carville noted that the president’s low numbers have been “stable” at
about “43.6 [percent approval] — which is not very good, but not collapsing.”
Project Vigil: D-Day
2014, The saluting boy on Omaha
This video is worth watching. an 11 year old boy on Normandy beach june
6, 2014 holding a salute for 1 1/2 hours. i can assure you, that is not and
easy task for a young man, let alone a boy......John. Very moving. Good kid.
~Bob
Military bans troops
from being honored by vacation Bible school
http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/07/26/military-bans-troops-honored-vacation-bible-school/
http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/07/26/military-bans-troops-honored-vacation-bible-school/
Excerpt: In yet another nod to someone’s skewed idea of the
First Amendment and political correctness, a Missouri National Guard armory was
forced to decline an invitation to be honored by a local Baptist church youth
group. (But they can participate in Gay Pride parades in uniform? I have no
problem with gays, but do with troops in uniform taking part in political
rallies. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The simple fact is this: A test that can be
evaluated objectively is underway. That test matches the ideas of people like
me that nature is in control (i.e., sun, oceans, stochastic events) vs. the
idea that CO2 is the control knob. We have the objective way at looking at it
by satellite and that measure started in 1978 after the Pacific was in its cold
cycle for 30 years. The game is now in the second half. The warming that
occurred from the late 70s to mid 90s was correlated almost 1 to 1 with the
Pacific warming, and this large body of water with tremendous stores of energy
warming the air till the global atmosphere adapted, and the temperature rise
leveled off. We could not observe nearly as accurately before similar events,
we did not have the satellites to do so! The Pacific flipped into its warm
cycle in 1978, for the first 30 years of satellite era temps, and is now
turning cold. The Atlantic is in its warm
cycle, but will soon turn colder. So we simply watch the global temperatures
while the downside of the cycle occurs and see what they do. ... I graduated
from what I consider to be the greatest meteorology school on the face of the
planet, Penn State Del )
Who Said It? Some Amazing Flip-Flops on Same-Sex Marriage.
By Michael Brown
Excerpt: Who said this and when did he or she say it? ...
Quote: “I think that the vast majority of Americans find [same-sex marriage] to
be something they can't agree with. But I think most Americans are fair. And if
they believe that people in committed relationships want to share their lives
and, not only that, have the same rights that I do in my marriage, to decide
who I want to inherit my property or visit me in a hospital, I think that most
Americans would think that that's fair and that should be done.” Answer: That
was former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a CBS News
interview in 2003.
President Obama’s competence problem is worse than it
looks. By Chris Cillizza
Excerpt: Almost six years on from that election, however,
Obama is faltering badly on the competence question and, in so doing, badly
imperiling not only his ability to enact any sort of second term agenda but
also Democrats' chances this fall. A series of events -- from the VA scandal to
the ongoing border crisis to the situation in Ukraine to the NSA spying program
-- have badly undermined the idea that Obama can effectively manage the
government.
Obamacare News
The Gift That Keeps
on Giving
Returned a rental truck today and asked the gal if U-Haul
was ok to work for, if they treat you ok. She said they were ok, but really
clamped down on part timers' hours to avoid benefits, like Obamacare. --GS
Excerpt: But this was not a drafting error at all. The point
was to coerce the states into setting up exchanges, and the Left’s premise in
structuring Obamacare as it did was its assessment
that Obamacare, and especially its subsidies, would be popular.Obamacare turned
out to be unpopular, however, and state governors and legislators did not
suffer any political blow-back for refusing to help implement it.
There was no ministerial drafting mistake; there was a mistaken assumption that
the public would rally behind the policy, creating political pressure on state
governments. Because statists think Obamacare is a good
idea, they figured everyone would be brought around to that conclusion.
Excerpt: Gilead (NASDAQ:
GILD) has become the whipping boy du jour for the forthcoming
Obamacare-driven cost explosion in government and private health spending.
Apparently, everything was going swimmingly until Gilead
— right out the blue! — dropped a cure for Hepatitis C on the market
and threw everyone’s spending projections into a tizzy. Politicians and the
health insurance industry have embarked on a high-profile campaign to shame Gilead for the price of its new wonder-drug, Sovaldi,
which can add up to $84,000 for a
course of treatment. If successful, this campaign will have
terrible long-term consequences for medical innovation.
Excerpt: The Obama administration on Tuesday will publish a
proposed rule that would give thousands of temporary and seasonal government
workers access to the government’s health care program, even though Obamacare
explicitly prohibits them from using that program.
Undocumented Democrat News
Unbelievable! President Obama Considers Solving
Illegal Immigrant Issue by Flying in Children Directly to the U.S.
Excerpt: The Obama administration has new idea to stem the
flow of people on the southern border: set up a refugee processing center in Honduras so they can fly to the U.S. This is
not a joke, unfortunately. It’s being reported in The New York Times.
Senator: Obama
Preparing To 'Nullify' Immigration Laws
Excerpt: Noting Obama’s reported plan to provide up to six
million parents of illegal immigrant DREAMers living in the U.S. work authorization via executive orders, Sessions
said Obama would be effectively ending enforcement of U.S.
immigration laws.
Why is the Border
Patrol harassing US citizens 100 miles from the border?
Excerpt: While thousands of undocumented immigrants are
allowed to pass through our borders illegally, then given bus passes and
airline tickets to scatter throughout the United
States and eventually disappear, American citizens
possessing valid U.S. passports
are being harassed at border checkpoints in locations up to 100 miles from any
international border. Fox News host John Stossel revealed this fact in a
disturbing video called, “Constitution Free Zones,” which should have most
Americans seeing red. It was one segment of his Saturday presentation
that asked the question, “Where’s the line between security and liberty?”
according to Fox News.
Know Your Military Colonists. By Daniel
Greenfield
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Excerpt: While the United States sent tens of thousands of soldiers to try and hold Iraq and Afghanistan only to fail; Mexico took California with a small army of underpaid handymen who claim entire cities and send back some 20 billion dollars a year. As conquests go, it's not hard to see who did more with less. In 2009, 417 Mexican migrants died trying to reachAmerica ,
and 317 American soldiers died in Afghanistan Mexico has more to show for it than America America
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Excerpt: While the United States sent tens of thousands of soldiers to try and hold Iraq and Afghanistan only to fail; Mexico took California with a small army of underpaid handymen who claim entire cities and send back some 20 billion dollars a year. As conquests go, it's not hard to see who did more with less. In 2009, 417 Mexican migrants died trying to reach
Protesters Swarm Beacon Hill , ‘Livid’ Over Illegal Immigration
Excerpt: An anti-illegal immigration rally on Beacon Hill outside the State House on Saturday, July 26
was teeming with protesters. While Bree Sison of CBS Boston estimated that the gathering
drew hundreds of people, Jeff Kuhner, the host of WRKO’s The Kuhner Report, who
organized the rally, put the number closer to 10,000 people. People carrying
signs that said “Deport illegals,” and “Americans before illegals” stood just
outside the State House from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (In the lead picture of the
Massachusetts State House, you'll note a door on the right of the balcony. That
leads to the senate foyer. It was a great place to step out on a nice night to
get a breath of fresh air during
debates. ~Bob)
Report: FEMA Looking
To House Illegals In Empty Big Box Stores, Airport Hangars
The Obama administration is reportedly looking to house
illegal immigrant juveniles in empty big box stores and even airplane hangars
across the nation. According to a report in The New Republic, "in recent
weeks, FEMA representatives have sent mass emails to advocacy networks
throughout the country soliciting potential detention facilities and offering
guidelines for acceptable spaces." Suggestions for "workable
locations" include "Office space, warehouse, big box store, shopping
mall with interior concourse, event venues, hotel or dorms, aircraft hangers
[sic]." In addition, facilities must reportedly be within "50 miles
of major city (Pop ~200K) /airport; available for lease; able to be fenced or
have adequate security.” (Per article, toilets optional...Hey, what about the Superdome?
--Barb)
Jeff Sessions: This
Week 'Critical' For Congress To Thwart Obama's Plans To Nullify Immigration
Laws
Excerpt: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said this week will be
one of the most critical weeks in the history of the republic for Americans who
want to preserve the rule of law that has made America so exceptional. President
Barack Obama is reportedly intent on granting temporary amnesty and work
permits to possibly eight million more illegal immigrants once Congress goes on
its August recess after this week, and Sessions said Congress has a chance this
week to "make it exceedingly difficult" for Obama to go forward with
his plans.
Excerpts: One of the reasons why so many Americans oppose
amnesty and a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens is because,
even if one buys it in utilitarian terms, to accept that an honorable American
identity can be born from an illegal act seems to mock the very essence of
citizenship and allegiance. Yet, putting aside the soon to be amnestied
millions, it seems to me the deformation of law necessary to accommodate the
armies of the undocumented is having a broader corrupting effect on the federal
bureaucracy. For example, can you think of anything more risible than working
for something called "US Customs & Border Protection"? There is
no "border" to "protect". On the Rio Grande , President Obama, the
Coyote-in-Chief, has simply erased said border. So one sympathizes with the
psychological burdens of being an employee of "Customs & Border
Protection". The continued rise of the abuse of power by our guardians,
whether the Border Patrol, the BATF, the EPA, the FBI, the SWAT team of
NEA (and SWAT team overuse in general), or just the local police, State cops, Sheriff's
deputies, etc., has gotten to be really noticeable. Thanks in no small part to
the Net and watchdogs. Plus there's the militarization of so many of these
agencies, who now have these just wonderful toys of armored vehicles, some
complete with high caliber MG, lots of body armor, helmets that not only
protect you but make you anonymous, and of course the ever present German made
automatic weapons. What we need is more people to stand up at the start of one
of these and scream, demand the supervisor, demand names and official business
cards, explain clearly that they know there is an attempt to violate their
rights, and that there will be consequences if this nonsense doesn't stop now.
The BSA should be going to Congress with this incident and demanding that the agents
involved and their supervisor be brought to task, have the incident go in their
records, and just about get on their knees in public to apologize for their
actions. THAT is what should happen, and it would be the kind of thing that
every gun-carrying agent would become aware of, and remember, and seriously
discourage their even thinking of trying such crap ever. But what do I know,
I'm just an old American who believes in our Founding principles and especially
the Bill of Rights (remember, no "unreasonable search and seizure"?),
and that our guardians should never stoop to bureaucratic abusive behaviors. --Del )
Religion of Peace News
Must See: 5 Minutes That Will Completely Change The
Way You Look at Islam | Israel
Please share with your friends. ~Bob
My Simple Plan for Gaza
Hamas announces that it will cease attacking Israel , disarms and recognizes the right of Israel
to exist. Israel stops
bombing and the anti-terrorist offensive in Gaza . The civilians in Gaza are now safe and without the resources
diverted to weapons and tunnels to kill Jews, become much more prosperous.
Everyone lives happily ever after. ~Bob
Shell the Nuts! Shell'em! And Tear Their Flesh Into Pieces. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
The recent kidnapping(s) and murder(s) of three Israeli teen boys by Hamas
(and return of favor by Israel
Traitor To Hamas: Son
of Hamas Founder Converts to Christianity and Exposes Hamas [VIDEO]
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2014/07/traitor-to-hamas-son-of-hamas-founder-converts-to-christianity-and-exposes-hamas-video/
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2014/07/traitor-to-hamas-son-of-hamas-founder-converts-to-christianity-and-exposes-hamas-video/
Excerpt: He says the common preaching in their mosques were
‘…without the shedding of innocent blood for the sake of the ideology, you will
not be able to build an Islamic state’; with this indoctrination starting as
young as 5-years-old.
Hamas breaks extended
ceasefire by firing rockets into Israel
Excerpt: Hamas has said it has fired several rockets at Israel from the Gaza .
The move comes after a 12-hour humanitarian ceasefire in the
embattled Palestinian territory and despite a four-hour Israeli extension.
Israeli PM Benjamin
Netanyahu vows Israel
Excerpt: “Hamas has broken five cease-fires,” Netanyahu told
"Fox News Sunday.” “They’ve violated their own cease-fires. They are
firing on us now. … We’ll do whatever is necessary to achieve our goal of a
sustained quiet.” Hamas announced earlier Sunday that it has agreed to a
24-hour holiday truce in Gaza , hours after Israel
resumed its ground offensive and airstrikes against the militant group for
firing a salvo of rockets at the southern part of the country.
Thousands Of
Nazi-Saluting Paris Muslims Protest Israel
Excerpt: Protesters chanted “Israel
is an assassin, Holland
is an accomplice” and “we are all Palestinians,” and some were seen gesturing
the quenelle, a reverse Nazi-salute, AFP reported. Tension mounted as hundreds
of protesters, some masked, began throwing stones and projectiles at police who
responded with tear gas. (Thankfully, the Jihadists have neither the courage
nor the fighting spirit or skills of the Wehrmacht or the Waffen SS. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Almost all French politicians adopt an attitude of
appeasement toward the enemies of Israel and Jews. They act as if
they did not see that the hate speech that France
finances in the Middle East is now spreading throughout France itself.This was the first time since
World War II that an anti-Semitic pogrom took place in France . No
major French television report speaks of Hamas's genocidal Jew-hatred or of the
use of Arab women and children as human shields. Criticizing radical Islam on
public television is now almost impossible. Members of the Israeli government
are never interviewed on French television.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The absence of a liberal state has been matched by
the absence of a liberal economy. After independence, the prevailing orthodoxy
was central planning, often Soviet-inspired. Anti-market, anti-trade,
pro-subsidy and pro-regulation, Arab governments strangled their economies. The
state pulled the levers of economic power—especially where oil was involved.
Where the constraints of post-colonial socialism were lifted, capitalism of the
crony, rent-seeking kind took hold, as it did in the later years of Egypt ’s Hosni
Mubarak. Privatisation was for pals of the government. (Though my reading
of history suggests that the Islamic Golden Age was hardly as tolerant as is
made out. ~Bob)
Dutch Orchestra walks out when Muslim conductor proceeds to give the Queen a lecture on the "beauty of Islam"
Excerpt: Then the members of the Orchestra stage a walkout!
Excerpt: Important columns by former attorney general
Michael Mukasey and Caroline Glick make the point that in Israel ’s
defensive war against Hamas, the main thing to focus on is not the missiles;
it’s the tunnels. Perhaps more significantly, they demonstrate that the
Obama administration, in its mulish appeasement of the Muslim Brotherhood-Sunni
supremacist axis that even Islamic governments (indeed, even the Saudis)
are shunning, is subverting a golden opportunity to achieve decisive victory
over Hamas – the necessary precondition if there is ever to be a stable
Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
Security Sources Say Hamas Planned a Massive ‘Terror
Tunnels’ Attack for September 24. By Sharona Schwartz
Excerpt: Quoting unnamed Israeli security sources, Ma’ariv
reported that the plan was to send 200 terrorists through each tunnel
simultaneously – using dozens of tunnels – to six Israeli communities in
southern Israel
for a shocking attack on the Jewish high holiday of Rosh Hashanah which this
year begins on September 24.
Reaching Critical
Mass
There is an undefined point, when a government is so corrupt
and incompetent, that citizens will no longer be willing to defend it. Iran or maybe Obama’s chief handler Valerie Jarrett, the Iranian Mole, seems to be playing our president, he who has no
experience at anything, like the proverbial fish on a line, but just maybe, one
of Iran’s homicidal maniacs has read the writing of old Sun Tzu. ....The quotes
have been there to read for 2400 years, but some people are too busy
hobnobbing with celebrities and fund raising to be concerned with defeating out
enemies. (Given the results in western civilization over the past 20
years, where the "best and brightest" no longer seek public office
and we have a civilization in decline, I'm inclined to think that democracy is
no longer worth the lives of our best young men and women fighting for it. But
it is worth fighting, either militarily against the armed jihad or politically
at home to protect our people from oppression by religious fanatics who want to
impose their beliefs by force or by the every-more-coercive, growing statist
government advocated by communists, socialists and progressives. ~Bob)
Must See: 5 Minutes That Will Completely Change The
Way You Look at Islam | Israel
Please share with your friends. ~Bob
Excerpt: A Qatari religious
leader used
his Friday sermon last week to pray to Allah to
"kill [the Jews] the very last one." Sheik Tareq Al-Hawwas' sermon
was aired on Qatar TV, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute
(MEMRI). (Suppose a Christian or Jewish clergyman prayed for God to kill every
Muslim? Think it would get comment from the left? Think this will? ~Bob)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-john-kerrys-big-blunder-in-seeking-an-israel-gaza-cease-fire/2014/07/28/ab3fbfd2-1686-11e4-9349-84d4a85be981_story.html?wpisrc=nl_popns
Excerpt: Secretary of State John Kerry has made a significant mistake in how
he’s pursuing a Gaza cease-fire — and it’s not surprising that he has
upset both the Israelis and some moderate Palestinians. Kerry’s error has been
to put so much emphasis on achieving a quick halt to the bloodshed that he has solidified the role of Hamas, the intractable,
unpopular Islamist group that leads Gaza , along
with the two hard-line Islamist nations that are its key supporters, Qatar and Turkey .
Excerpt: ‘Let me just tell you,” says Joan Rivers: “If New Jersey were firing rockets into New York , we would wipe them out. If we
heard they were digging tunnels from New Jersey
to New York , we would get rid of Jersey .”
Excerpt: The wife of Cameroon's vice-prime minister was
kidnapped and at least three people were killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants
in the northern town of Kolofata on Sunday, Cameroon
officials said. A local religious leader, or lamido, named Seini Boukar Lamine,
who is also the town's mayor, was kidnapped in a separate attack on his
home. (See, all the violence is caused by Israel 's
occupation of Gaza ...~Bob)
Libya clashes kill 38
in Benghazi
Excerpt: The militants attacked troops in the centre of the
city, in eastern Libya .
A week of fighting in the capital Tripoli , near the airport, has left 97 people
dead and 404 injured. (So, Barack, how's that lead-from-behind, non-congressional-authorized
war in Libya
working out for you? ~Bob)
Op-Ed: Madeleine
Albright is Still Pressuring Israel: Still criticizing Israel after
all these years, she has a lot to explain about her own actions.
Excerpt: It's been 22 years since Madeleine Albright was a
foreign policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter, 17 years since she was America 's
ambassador to the United Nations, and 13 since she was secretary of state. Yet
all these years later, Albright is still pressuring Israel and trying to appease Israel 's
enemies. Like many former government officials, Mrs. Albright, who is now
a professor at Georgetown University Israel 's
expense.
Excerpt: The Times of Israel is reporting that a government
official told Israeli Channel 2 that Kerry “dug a tunnel under the Egyptian ceasefire
proposal” which was accepted by Israel on Friday, and gave the
Israeli government a text that accepted most of the demands made by Hamas. To
the “horror” of the Israeli ministers, the Kerry proposal accepted Hamas’s
demands for the opening of border crossings into Gaza —
where Israel and Egypt fear the import of weaponry; the
construction of a seaport; and the creation of a post-conflict funding channel
for Hamas from Qatar and
other countries, according to the sources. The proposal, meanwhile, did not
even provide for Israel to
continue demolishing the Hamas network of “terror tunnels” dug under the
Israeli border. (Well, when Kerry was caught saying the IDF was conducting
"A Hell of a pinpoint" job on the tunnels and that we had to get over
there to stop it, shows the US regime is backing radical Islamists, despite
pushing gay agendas. --Brb)
Excerpt: Further, they had outraged the Egyptians, who were dumped from the
negotiations by Obama and Kerry in favor of Turkey and Qatar .
Our administration seems to have a preference for the more extreme
Islamist/Muslim Brotherhood societies, although you would think, given their
professed loyalty to women’s and gay rights, these cultures would be anathema
to them. Never mind. Obama is an equal opportunity narcissist and everything’s
fine, unless you cross him.
Excerpt: Multiple media outlets report that
Hamas’s offensive tunnel network – now known to have been composed of over
forty attack tunnels dug underneath Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled
Gaza Strip – was set to be activated during the Jewish High Holidays (September
24th) as a mass terror attack. The attack was meant to
generate as many as ten thousand casualties, men, women and particularly
children and hundreds of captives. Explosives were particularly placed
underneath kindergartens to make certain that these “institutions” would be the
first struck, even before any thing else. The IDF recently published the below
map showing that tunnels were created in pairs, to empty out on both sides of
nearby communities.
Excerpt: “Imam Ahmad reported in his Musnad that
Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin Al-‘As (may God be pleased with him) reports, Whilst we
were around the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) writing down, he was
asked, ‘Which of the two cities is to be opened first, Constantinople or Rome ?’ He (the Prophet)
answered, ‘The city of Heraclius
will be opened first!’” (Imam Ahmad, and Al-Albany) Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradawi
quoted this hadith a few years ago and
added: “This means that Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and
victor, after being expelled from it twice – once from the South, from
Andalusia, and a second time from the East, when it knocked several times on
the door of Athens .”
Police Abort
Bloodbath in Kano
Excerpt: The Police Sunday aborted what would have been a
bloodbath following the discovery of a car loaded with explosives at Shiek
Isyaku Rabiu mosque at Goron Dutse Kano.
Hamas Mortar Shell
Kills 4; IDF Foils Terrorist Infiltration
Excerpt: Another deadly Hamas mortar attack killed four people on Monday afternoon, targeting
the Eshkol Regional Council along the Gaza
border, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Hamas to Buy N.
Korean Weapons as Kerry Pledges $47 Million in Gaza Aid: Wouldn’t a
direct wire transfer from the White House to Pyongyang
Excerpt: The Telegraph reports that Hamas has may have already put
down a down payment on a secret weapons and communications equipment deal worth
hundreds of thousands of dollars. ... Keeping in mind that money is fungible
and Hamas are experts at redirecting foreign aid, this report comes hard on the
heels of the report that US Secretary of State John Kerry is sending $47 million to Gaza for
humanitarian aid. $15 million of that aid has been earmarked for
UNRWA. UNRWA schools have been used to store Hamas rockets, and UNRWA officials
have even transferred rockets to Hamas.
US Imam preaching
theft, rape and murder of Christians and Jews in the US
YouTube video.
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