General News and Comment
My Random Thoughts for August, 2014
President Obama’s
impeachment is a fantasy — for both parties
Excerpt: President Obama is not being impeached. But for
several years, Republicans have been indulging and even encouraging that
fantasy on the part of the far-right edges of their party’s base. ... And now
Democrats are raising millions off the idea that the GOP is serious about doing
it. “I
would not discount that possibility,” presidential adviser Dan
Pfeiffer said Friday. (As a Republican who voted against Obama twice, I think
the talk of impeaching him is just dumb. Have we forgotten how the impeachment
of Bill Clinton allowed the media and Democrats too picture him as a victim,
saving his presidency? And today he is the revered elder statesman, having
joined the rich one-percent through paid speeches. But no, on it goes. First,
to convict him, even if the GOP wins the senate in November, you'd need at
least 12 Democrat votes. No Democrat would vote to impeach, if Obama was caught
raping a nun. They are dependent on the minority votes in their base; they
would not care what the evidence was. Then if you convicted and removed him,
there would be riots in the cities, with millions, maybe billions of dollars in
destruction, and hundreds of deaths. That might give even Republicans pause.
And after that settles down--and you foot the reconstruction bill through our
taxes--say these two words: "President
Biden." Not only would he continue Obama's policies, and provide even
more inept and dithering leadership in the world, he would instantly be the
Democrat nominee and likely front runner to be elected president in 2016. ~Bob)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The academic world is the natural habitat of
half-baked ideas, except for those fields in which there are decisive tests,
such as science, mathematics, engineering, medicine;and athletics. In all these
fields, in their differing ways, there comes a time when you must either put up
or shut up. It should not be surprising that all of these fields are notable
exceptions to the complete domination by the left on campuses across the
country. (From Barbarians Inside the
Gates, an excellent 2001 collection of Dr. Sowell's columns from the 1990s,
all still relevant. ~Bob)
Excerpt: That’s the Left’s narrative on Jim Crow, and it’s
dead wrong in both fact and analysis. Here is the heart of the issue, where the
left has hijacked the true history of Jim Crow. The dividing line over Jim Crow
was never liberals vs. conservatives; it’s far more accurate to describe it as
Democrats versus Republicans. Not only in the 1800s, when the KKK served as the
paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, but right into the 1950s and 1960s.
Bookman’s assertion that “conservatives in the Republican Party … fought
against civil rights” is utterly false. As historian Dr. John Fonte noted on
NRO in 2003, staunchly conservative Republicans led the fight for civil rights
in the Senate, including Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, Ohio Senator Robert
Taft, and California Senator Bill Knowland. (The writer is black. ~Bob)
The Truth About Jim
Crow
Worth Reading : Statesmanship
and The Little Rock
Excerpt: The Supreme Court ruling had been clear. "Separate
But Equal" was anything but equal, and the right to an education,
regardless of skin color, would never be realized until our nation's schools
were integrated. So down in Little Rock ,
Arkansas nine African American children would
dare to walk into the front doors of Little Rock 's
Central High School Little
Rock ... So Dwight Eisenhower, Republican, faced down
Orval Faubus, a Democrat, even in the face of the Democratically controlled
"solid south" who were adamantly opposed to racial equality.
No Joke: California
Excerpt: Rev. Karen Crozier, local pastor and activist, is
leading an effort to protest the district’s decision. She explained: ... We
didn’t fight for a white male or female teacher to educate our babies. ... In
other words, Rev. Crozier supports discrimination of skin color for the
position of teaching about the evils of discrimination of skin color.
The View: 'Get A Gun'
To Protect Yourself And Your Children. By Awr Hawkins
Excerpt: On the July 29 airing of The View, three of
the four people on a panel agreed women need a gun in the house to protect
themselves and their children.
49% Believe Government
Programs Increase Poverty in America
Excerpt: Congress is debating a plan by Republican
Congressman Paul Ryan to reform government welfare programs. Most Americans
still believe current government anti-poverty programs have no impact on
poverty in this country or actually increase it.
And The IRS Scandal
Expands As New Revelations Suggest It Also Targeted Pro-Israel Groups. By Caroline
Schaeffer
Excerpt: But recently discovered emails pull another group
into the mix and shows that the IRS was engaged in a pattern of silencing
groups whose views did not fit with the Administration’s agenda. In 2009,
the pro-Israel group Z Street
applied for tax-exempt status, according to the WSJ. The organization’s purpose
is to educate the public on “Israel-related issues.” In 2010 an IRS agent told Z Street that its
application was delayed because the tax agency’s Washington , D.C.
History Professor: Convicted Cop Killer Mumia Should Be
Celebrated Like Martin Luther King Jr. in Schools. By Katie
Pavlich
Excerpt: Last night on the Kelly File Baruch
College History Professor Joanna Fernandez argued that unrepentant convicted
cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, who murdered Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel
Faulkner in 1981 by shooting him five times in the face, should be celebrated
in schools just like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She also argued using words
like "militant" and "convicted cop killer" to describe
Mumia, is racist. Another nice nugget? A California
teacher's union feels the same way. (Well, the left loves Mao, Stalin and
Ché--what's one more ruthless murderer in their pantheon of heroes? ~Bob)
The Insiders:
Democratic phonies are on the run. By Ed Rogers
Excerpt: What’s with all the Democratic Senate candidates
being caught displaying a condescending, insulting contempt for voters? The
latest embarrassing incident involves Georgia Senate
candidate Michelle Nunn, who suffered the indignity of having her 144-page campaign plan leaked.
... The plan involves trying to create a fake, gun-toting, rural-friendly image
for the wannabe Georgian senator supplied by a Democratic PR firm
based in San Francisco, and exposes her positions on issues as basic
as her commitment to Israel as contrived to drive her fundraising efforts. But
Michelle Nunn is only the latest Senate Democratic candidate to be exposed as a
phony.
Congressman Paul Ryan has introduced a proposal, Expanding
Opportunity in America, to bring together different federal anti-poverty
programs into one. Ryan focuses on the Earned Income Tax Credit, housing and
home-energy assistance, education assistance, food stamps (SNAP), and criminal
sentencing reform. Ryan’s proposal hinges on the Opportunity Grant (OG). States
would apply for OGs that would roll some or all of this federal money into one
lump sum. However, it would not just be turned over to states as a block grant.
States, civil-society organizations, and recipients themselves would all be
responsible for measuring and achieving outcomes. The OG would have one
overriding goal: To facilitate recipients moving out of dependency and into
self-reliance. (Doesn't matter, it's not going anywhere anyway. The Democrat
poverty pimps and program bureaucrats would never let Harry Reid bring it to
the floor or Obama sign it. Poverty is their rice bowl, and they will fight
tooth and nail to keep the dollars flowing into the current system. The rest o
us will hardly notice the fight. ~Bob)
WaPo Editorial: Hollywood
myth-making on Valerie Plame controversy
From 2010, but worth knowing about. ~Bob. Excerpt: In fact,
"Fair Game," based on books by Mr. Wilson and his wife, is full of
distortions - not to mention outright inventions. To start with the most
sensational: The movie portrays Ms. Plame as having cultivated a group of Iraqi
scientists and arranged for them to leave the country, and it suggests that
once her cover was blown, the operation was aborted and the scientists were
abandoned. This is simply false. ... Hollywood
has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the
truth; "Fair Game" is just one more example. But the film's reception
illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are
willfully ignored
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Basic economics teaches that forcing up the price
of something makes people less willing to buy that something. This reasoning,
for example, is behind the administration’s recent hike in tariffs on Korean
steel. The president correctly understands that forcing up the price of Korean
steel will cause Americans to buy less of it. Contrary to Obama’s suggestion,
the same logic holds for labor. Forcing up labor’s price will cause employers
to hire less of it (by, for example, supermarkets using self-checkout computers
instead of cashiers).
The Man Who Never
Calls. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt: There was an odd moment during a White House press
briefing recently when Ed Henry of Fox News noted that the President was
sometimes spending three out of five days a week fundraising for his party, and
wondered, in effect, whether he still did any work. Press Secretary Josh Earnest responded: Well, I
will hazard a guess that a significant portion of the President's time each of
those days will be dedicated to participating in the presidential daily
briefing, getting updates from his national security team about the situation
on the ground, making phone calls to world leaders, consulting with his
national security officials who are traveling across the world... Well, I
will "hazard a guess" that he's actually making very few "phone
calls to world leaders".
Study: Hundreds of rules passed by Obama administration are
technically illegal. By Juliet Eilperin
Excerpt: Over the past two years, the Obama administration
has published hundreds and hundreds of rules — on how wheelchairs should be
stowed aboard U.S. aircraft, how foreign trade zones should be regulated, how
voting assistance should be provided for U.S. citizens overseas, and so on. There’s
a problem, however: Technically speaking, these and some 1,800 other
regulations shouldn’t be in effect because they weren’t reported to Congress as
required. Yet there is little that lawmakers or the courts can do about it.
Sickening: Another Travesty of Justice: Carr Brothers
Given Leniency. By Jack Kerwick
Excerpt: But it wasn’t until three days
after thismurder that the Carrs’ campaign of evil reached its horrifying
climax.... Armed with guns, the Carrs made their victims perform sexual acts
on one another. The women were forced to penetrate each other’s vaginas
orally and digitally, and the men were forced to have sex with the women. Yet
when the Carrs discovered that Befort and “H.G.” were romantically involved,
they prevented them from having sexual intercourse with one another,
choosing instead to force Befort watch as they coerced his friends to
essentially rape his fiancée to be. .. Yet on Friday, July 25, by a 6-1
decision, the Kansas Supreme Court, citing procedural problems,
maintained the convictions whileoverturning the Carrs’ death sentences.
(If the victims had been black and the killers white, everyone would know their
names. ~Bob)
Another Hoax? Obama Takes Bold Step to Geoengineer
Climate Change
The person who sent me this item in the last post reports
that it is phony. ~Bob
Emails show ex-IRS
official Lerner using derogatory terms for Republicans
Excerpt: House Republicans have dug up emails from Lois
Lerner in which the former IRS official refers to some in the Republican Party
as “---holes” and "crazies" – an exchange they say shows her “animus”
toward conservatives.
Undocumented Democrat News
Poll: Americans Cool
to Border-Crossing Children
Excerpt: Americans are wary of granting refugee status to
children crossing the U.S.
border to flee strife-torn countries in Central America, and most in an
Associated Press-GfK poll say the U.S. does not have a moral
obligation to accept asylum seekers generally.
The new poll found 53 percent of Americans believe the United States
has no moral obligation to offer asylum to people who escape violence or
political persecution, while 44 percent believe it has that responsibility.
Religion of Peace News
US is no safer after
13 years of war, a top Pentagon official says. The outgoing head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency says that new players on the scene are more radical than Al
Qaeda, and the core Al Qaeda ideology has lost none of its potency.
By Anna Mulrine
Excerpt: “We have a whole gang of new actors out there that
are far more extreme than Al Qaeda,” says Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, head of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, which employs some 17,000 American intelligence
collectors in 140 countries around the world.
Belief U.S. Terror Falls
Excerpt: Belief that the United States is winning the War on
Terror has plummeted to its lowest level in over 10 years of regular tracking. A
new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 27% of Likely
U.S. Voters now believe the United
States and its allies are winning the War on
Terror.
Excerpt: A
Pew poll tells us: “As violence between Israel
and Hamas shows no signs of abating, the sympathies of the American public
continue to lie with Israel
rather than the Palestinians. And dating back to the late 1970s, the partisan
gap in Mideast sympathies has never been
wider. Currently, 51% of Americans say that in the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, they sympathize
more with Israel .
Just 14% sympathize more with the Palestinians, while 15% volunteer that they
sympathize with neither side and 3% sympathize with both.” (You can support Israel or you
can support Democrats and Hamas. ~Bob)
Israel, Gaza and the Repulsive
Moralists. By Bernard Goldberg
Excerpt: More than 100,000 Arabs have been killed in the war
raging in Syria .
How many more Arabs have been killed in Iraq
by other Arabs since the U.S.
pulled out all its troops? How many Arabs have been killed by other Arabs
before and since the Arab Spring? Let’s just say, lots. And what is the
reaction here in America
and around the world? A great big yawn. If anyone really cares about Arabs
killing Arabs, they’re not doing a good job showing it. (Like the high number
of blacks being murdered that no one cares about because the killers are black.
But in the rare case when the killer is white, then it's marches and riots to
get votes and concessions and money. ~Bob)
Obama Rated Poorly on
Mideast Conflict
Excerpt: Just 39 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s
handling of the situation in Israel
and the Gaza Strip, while more than half, 52 percent, disapprove. (On issue
after issue Obama and the Democrats stand against the majority opinion. Not
very democratic of them. But, hey, Obama's black, so folks still support him.
~Bob)
France evacuates
French and British expats from Libya
Excerpt: The French government says it has evacuated French
and British nationals from Libya ,
as battles rage between government forces and militias. A French diplomatic
source said 40 French nationals, including the ambassador, had been evacuated
by ship along with seven British nationals. (I wonder if France and Britain
are having second thoughts about participating in Obama's lead-from-behind,
non-congressionally-authorized war that destabilized Libya . ~Bob)
Paying Ransoms, Europe Bankrolls Qaeda Terror. By Rukmini Callimachi
Excerpt: The cash filled three suitcases: 5 million euros.
... Officially, Germany had
budgeted the money as humanitarian aid for the poor, landlocked nation of Mali . In truth,
all sides understood that the cash was bound for an obscure group of Islamic
extremists who were holding 32 European hostages, according to six senior
diplomats directly involved in the exchange. ... While European governments
deny paying ransoms, an investigation by The New York Times found that Al Qaeda
and its direct affiliates have taken in at least $125 million in revenue from
kidnappings since 2008, of which $66 million was paid just last year. (And the
more they pay, the stronger the Jihadists get, so the more people they can
kidnap and murder. Like paying Danegeld--as Kipling said, once you do, you
never get rid of the Dane. ~Bob)
Three Israeli Troops
Killed in Booby-Trapped UN Clinic
Excerpt: Three Israeli soldiers were killed Wednesday when
a tunnel opening they were investigating turned out to be booby-trapped.
The tunnel opening was located under a United Nations Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA) clinic, the Times of Israel reports.
Hamas Kills Own Citizens, Blames Israel
Excerpt: Fortunately for the world, Italian journalist
Gabriele Barbati was in Gaza
and was able to get confirmation from witnesses that the Al Shati
“massacre” was actually caused by a Hamas rocket that was misfired.
Excerpt: Three weeks into deadly fighting in Gaza and along its
border, Israeli forces have been surprised to encounter an extensive,
sophisticated tunnel system that has been used by Hamas to infiltrate Israeli
territory and carry out raids. The destruction of that tunnel system has become
a focal point of Israeli military operations, and Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has emphasized that any cease-fire must allow his forces to continue
identifying and sealing those tunnels. To understand why these tunnels have
become such a hot-button issue, one need look no further than a video released
by Hamas by Tuesday, July 29. That video shows a group of fighters exiting such
a tunnel and attacking an Israeli military installation. (It seems even the
usually on-top-of-it Israelis were taken back to find out just how many and how
sophisticated the tunnels from Gaza into Israel are. One
that was inspected by a retired US general was three miles long, and very well
engineered, not some crawl space through the dirt like the WW2 escape tunnels
from the German POW camps. The Hamas guys were dumb enough to even put out a
video from a successful raid from a tunnel that killed at least one Israeli and
got them a sophisticated heavy MG for a souvenir as well. (Letting your enemy
learn about your secret weapons against them just doesn't seem like a really
smart idea.) The count of major tunnels is now up in the thirties, and they
Israelis are looking closer than before for more of them, and their entrances
in Gaza , often
to be found under homes, schools, etc. It has become clear why the Gazans
were always complaining about the restrictions on concrete and building
materials to be brought in to the area, because so much of it was not going for
homes or other buildings, but for the tunnels. This has really gotten the full
attention of the Israelis, which is why they will not agree to any kind of truce
that would not allow them to continue to search for and destroy invading
tunnels. I can hardly blame them for that. --Del
Obama’s Muslim Founding Fathers. By Robert Spencer,
Director of Jihad
Watch
Excerpt: Barack Obama asserted that “Eid also reminds us of
the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the
very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.” ... You
remember a few of them, don’t you? Remember the Muslim signers of the
Declaration of Independence? With Yahya al-Hanqoq’s large signature front and
center, so that the infidel King George III could read it without his
spectacles? And then there was Ibrahim Clark of New Jersey and El-Bridge Gerry of
Massachusetts.
Worth Reading : What
Obama Really Wants in Gaza
Excerpt: While Israelis are fighting and dying, families
huddling in bomb shelters and soldiers going off to face death, the men and
women in suits and power suits moving through the great halls of diplomacy are
using them as pawns in a larger game. During the Cold War, Israel was a pawn in a larger struggle between
the US and the USSR . Now it is
back to being a counter in a larger game.
Hamas Intimidates
Western Journalists, Kills 30 "Collaborators"
Excerpt: Western journalists operating in Gaza
have been threatened and harassed by Hamas for reporting instances of the
terrorist groups' use of human shields, according to a Times of Israel report. Israeli officials have noted
that some reporters are intimidated by Hamas' threats and have ceased
documenting Hamas' exploitation of civilians throughout the conflict.
Anti-Jewish slogans
return to the streets in Germany as protests sweep Europe
Excerpt: No burning the Israeli flag. No shouts of “Death to
Israel .”
And absolutely no repeating the slogan “Jew, Jew, cowardly pig, come out and
fight alone” — a rhyming chant in German that had become increasingly common at
pro-Palestinian rallies here before being nipped in the bud by German
authorities.
Anti-Israel
Protesters Block London
Excerpt: A shocking video from a major traffic
artery in London
shows Islamist protesters blocking the route in a loud protest which
included the waving of an Al Qaeda flag.
Excerpt: Dozens of people have been killed or injured in
violence in China 's
Xinjiang region on Monday, state media say. A knife-wielding gang attacked a
police station and government offices in Shache county, Xinhua news agency
said. Police shot dead many attackers, it said, and "dozens" of
Uighur and Han Chinese civilians were killed or hurt.
Firebombs fail to
ignite at Toulouse
Excerpt: Police in Toulouse
arrested a man who hurled three firebombs at a Jewish community center and the
officers guarding it. The incident happened Saturday, one hour after the
conclusion of a demonstration against Israel ’s
actions against Hamas in Gaza ,
the AFP news agency reported.
Sweden: Policeman caught by violent mob inside Muslim area
left alone by colleagues for fear of riots. By Nicolai Sennels
The decision to leave their colleague alone in the hands of
these barbarians was probably taken by leaders inside the police department.
What I heard from a usually well-informed source is that the quickest way to
make a career inside the police force is to be pro-multicultural and
pro-appeasement, and to avoid riots at all cost. After
this, how can the Swedes trust that the police will protect them? And
with 31 firearms per 100 people, how can the Swedish
authorities trust that their voters and taxpayers will not think of ways to
take the law in their own hands one day?
Greater Men Have
Tried. By Paula Stern
Excerpt: Dear Secretary of State John Kerry: Because of my
respect for the United
States , I will attempt to afford you the honor
you think you so richly deserve. It’s hard to speak to you with anything but
anger, hard to feel the need, again, to start from the beginning because you
clearly choose to ignore history in your quest for glory. It is a quest
destined to fail but its outcome, even, or more accurately especially, in
failure, will hurt Israel .
IDF Finds Hamas
Training Manual; Hospitals Used as Terrorist Bases
Excerpt: Israel 's
Operation Protective Edge uncovered a comprehensive Hamas training manua lthat features step-by-step
instructions on building homemade bombs. The terrorist manual includes detailed
techniques concerning the concealing and detonation of various types
explosives.
Excerpt: Then she posted a picture on her own Facebook page
of herself, praying with her daughter Alma. While many Israeli stars have come
forward to plead for an end to the bloodshed, it was Gal's caption that caught
attention... “I am sending my love and prayers to my fellow Israeli citizens.
Especially to all the boys and girls who are risking their lives protecting my
country against the horrific acts conducted by Hamas, who are hiding like
cowards behind women and children...We shall overcome!!! Shabbat Shalom! (She
served two years in the IDF. I may have to see the movie! ~Bob)
Muslim Issues Death
Threat on Obama’s FACEBOOK page: “Death to you Barack Obama” on Obama’s FB Page
by Muslim
Excerpt: Did Obama neglect to invite him to the Eid dinner
or was this what
Obama meant by “contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very
fabric of our nation.” If this guy was a tea partier he’d be jailed for life
but this guy may have just got himself an invite to a White House dinner.
(Trying to appease Jihadists is like trying to appease Nazis--there is always a
new demand. ~Bob)
‘Big Bang’ star Mayim
Bialik helps send bulletproof vests to IDF
Excerpt: The Jewish actress and outspoken supporter of Israel wrote a brief
blog post Wednesday afternoon, titled “Why I Donated Money to
Send Bulletproof Vests to the IDF.”
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