Update
I was going to post last night,
but couldn't get on BlogSpot. Google problems. Finally rebooting fixed it.
Still off O2, at 96% to 99% oxygen
sats around the house, dropped to 91%-92% in last few minutes on treadmill
Monday. Coughed only a little Monday and popped that back muscle spasm for the
4th time. Not as bad as the other three. Was able to do FEV numbers--and the
average was over 1.50 LPS yesterday.
Britnye's dad coming for a visit
today, staying for a week, so I may be busier than usual.
L (prefers not to use full name),
whose story I posted in the blog has been going down hill, needs another
kidney. And our friend Joe, from PA, who got a lung last August, was just
diagnosed with liver and pancreatic cancer, can't do chemo because of the lung.
Likely related to the immune suppressant drugs. He was doing great, a poster
boy for transplants. Please add L, Joe and Brenda (Joe's wife) to your prayer
list. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Important: Judicial Watch: Federal Attorney Says
Backup Of Lois Lerner Emails Exist
Excerpt: Department of Justice attorneys for the Internal
Revenue Service told Judicial Watch on Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed
all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in
case of a government-wide catastrophe. The Obama administration attorneys said
that this back-up system would be too onerous to search. The DOJ attorneys also
acknowledged that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)
is investigating this back-up system. (Onerous for whom? ~Bob)
Excerpt: Judicial Watch announced the following developments
in the IRS’ missing emails investigation. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton
stated: Department of Justice attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service told
Judicial Watch on Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government
computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a
government-wide catastrophe. The Obama administration attorneys said that this
back-up system would be too onerous to search. ... There are no
“missing” Lois Lerner emails – nor missing emails of any of the other top IRS
or other government officials whose emails seem to be disappearing at
increasingly alarming rate. (As Bob would say, "Show me your shocked
face." So, who stands up for truth, law and justice, since the DOJ is
stonewalling a la orders? --Barb)
Democrats Go After
Ben Carson After He Wins Straw Poll
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/25/democrats-go-after-ben-carson-after-he-wins-straw-poll/#ixzz3BUjEXUBk
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/25/democrats-go-after-ben-carson-after-he-wins-straw-poll/#ixzz3BUjEXUBk
Excerpt: The Democratic National Committee is going after
Ben Carson — who won a presidential straw poll of Republican voters in Iowa
over the weekend — by drawing attention to colorful remarks made by the
neurosurgeon. On Monday, the DNC sent a short email to reporters about
“Ben Carson’s 2016 Momentum.” ...The DNC then drew attention to previous
headlines about Carson, including “Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing ‘since
slavery’” and “Ben Carson: America’s now ‘very much like Nazi Germany.’”
Excerpt: For example, when Maj. Gen. Harold Greene died, the
Secretary of Defense did attend the funeral. Gen. Greene was the first General
killed in combat since Vietnam .
The SecDef needed to be there. But the President probably didn’t need to be
fist bumping on the golf course while this was going on. Given the situation in
Ferguson , MO ,
it made sense for the President to have someone at Michael Brown’s funeral
service. But
it also made sense to have someone at James Foley’s memorial service. After
all, the President had just had a terrible couple of days in the news for
looking angrily into a camera to denounce Mr. Foley’s decapitation, then
rushing to a golf course. (NPD--he doesn't care about anyone, including
Democrats, except Obama. ~Bob)
Dear Millennials: Hollywood , Your Favorite
Bands, and Your College Professors Have Been Lying To You About Life. By John
Hawkins
Excerpt: I feel sorry for Millennials. We are leaving them
an almost insurmountable debt, an American Dream that seems tarnished, and
chances are, they're not going to have it as good as their parents. However,
we've done something even worse to these kids. We've left far too much of their
education in life to Hollywood ,
musicians, and college professors who've passed on a skewed view of the world.
Do We Have a Sociopath
in the White House? By Wayne Root
Excerpt: Either Obama is detached and just couldn’t care
less…or he just doesn’t like America
very much, so he’s purposely fiddling while Rome burns....This is most certainly “The
Murder of the Middle Class.” And the death of America . (I don't think the writer
is qualified to diagnose, certainly not long distance, Neither am I, but my
best guess would be NPD--Narcissistic Personality Disorder. ~Bob)
Excerpt: But in one high profile arena, that of media,
culture and entertainment, the myth of la France résistante was harder to
sustain because so many well-known writers, artists and singers had worked
under German rules in full view of the public. And this in a country where
intellectuals and artists have long claimed the right to pontificate on all
topics from the moral high ground. What every Parisian knew — and usually
applauded — was that within months of the fall of France, the city’s cultural
life was once again buzzing (albeit with Jewish artists first excluded and
later persecuted).
Feds creating
database to track hate speech on Twitter
The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to
create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on
Twitter. The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web
service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and
misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online. The
“Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University ,
is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and
other social pollution.” (So POTUS, FLOTUS, DOJ, Lerner, Sharpton, Jackson,
Politico, Soros-funded media attack groups, Reid, Pelosi (She spit in the
House, remember) et al will be listed? Yeah, when a warm place freezes over or
when Obama quits playing golf. The rub is in who determines "what" is
hate speech. USSR here
we are. Or the IV Reich. What happened to "freedom of speech" in the
Constitution? Gone with the Wind. Maybe ISIS is
right; we are "sheeple." Who is paying for this censorship that is
supposed to "preserve open debate"? --Barb. Well, I'm sure some kinds
of hate speech will still be protected by the First Amendment, like calls to
murder Jews, Christians, whites, rednecks, Tea Party members, etc. ~Bob)
Be Very Suspicious of
Obama’s Detached Appearance
Excerpt: There’s a Politico story. Again, it’s about Obama
going to play golf so soon after delivering the fake speech on Jim Foley. And
here’s the telltale line. Again, from the perspective that Obama hasn’t checked
out, that this is a ruse, that this is a camouflage, Obama is simply appearing
detached and checked out to lull everybody to sleep so that they’re not awake
enough to see just how much he is doing, and I think, folks, you had better pay
attention. (I think he's the first it's-all-about-me president, just doesn't
care what anyone thinks. ~Bob)
Worth Reading :
The Republican Racist Myth. By Mona Charen
Excerpt: Well, the House of Representatives censured the New
York Democrat in 2010 by a vote of 333 to 79 (when the body was still majority
Democrat) for violating 11 ethics rules and “bringing discredit to the House.”
The New York Times called it a “staggering fall” for the senior Democrat. But
fall-schmall, he’s since been reelected and will retire at his leisure. While
chatting with Brian Lamb, Rangel dropped a few falsehoods as casually as cigar
ash. This isn’t to pick on Rangel. He’s just illustrative.
Worth Reading :
The Madness of
2008: A nation became unhinged by trivialities like “hope and
change.” It has now awakened. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: America
is suddenly angry at the laxity, incompetence, and polarizing politics of the
Obama administration, the bad optics of the president putting about in his
bright golf clothes while the world burns. Certainly, no recent president has
failed on so many fronts — honesty, transparency, truthfulness, the economy,
foreign policy, the duties of the commander-in-chief, executive
responsibilities, and spiritual leadership.
Wake Up, Socially
Liberal Fiscal Conservatives. The GOP isn’t the political party
in debt denial. By Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: When George W. Bush added nearly $5 trillion in
national debt in two terms you were scandalized. When Obama added more than
that in one term, you yawned. When, in 2006, then-senator Obama condemned
Bush’s failure of leadership and vowed to vote against raising the debt
ceiling, you thought him a statesman. Obama, who wants to borrow trillions
more, now admits that was purely a “political vote.” Yet when Republicans
actually have the courage of Obama’s own convictions, you condemn them.
The college majors
most and least likely to lead to underemployment
Excerpt: Employees with degrees in fields like English,
general studies, and graphic design are among the most likely to report feeling
"underemployed" at their current jobs. This is according to a recent
survey of 68,000 workers by salary information firm PayScale. (Worth
sharing with your high school or college student. A woman wrote to my blog a
year or so ago, complaining that she had two master's degrees and was ABD for a
PhD. "Let me guess in what," I replied. Sure enough, they were in
social work and education. I explained the law of supply and demand to her.
~Bob
If Britain were a U.S.
state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama
and before Mississippi .
By Hunter Schwarz
Excerpt: The ranking, determined by Fraser Nelson, an editor
of The Spectator magazine, was made by dividing
the gross domestic product of each state by its population, and it took into
account purchasing power parity for cost of living. Several other European
countries were also included in the ranking. (Well, British Progressives have a
head start on US Progressives in the fundamental transformation of Britain .
Suggested reading: Life at the Bottom
by Dr. Anthony Daniels, British psychiatrist who writes as Theodore Dalrymple.
~Bob)
Excerpt: With just 10 weeks separating us from our favorite
biennial event, let's go through 10 things -- 10 weeks, 10 things....get it? --
that I think we know about the midterm election to come. They're
listed in no particular order.
Juncker tells EU
leaders to pick more female Commission candidates
Excerpt: Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the European
Commission, is urging EU member states to pick more female candidates to serve
on his top team. (because, as every Progressive knows, you always get better
people when you select based on gender, race or ethnicity than when you select
based on character, experience and ability. The KKK would agree. ~Bob)
Important: Does democracy cause pension
mismanagement?
Excerpt: Red states’ pension management records can be just
as irresponsible as blue states’, to be sure. But a new
paper suggests that the real threat may come from purple America . The University of Michigan ’s Sutirtha Bagchi lays out
a carefully quantified case that fiscal irresponsibility stems from too much
political competition, not its lack. Bagchi compares data on 2,000 local
pension plans in Pennsylvania
with the vote shares each political party received in these same localities,
for all major state and national races held between 1980 and 2009. (Vote buying
by both parties...we are doomed. ~Bob)
Excerpt: More and more I’m convinced that America right
now isn’t a country dealing with a mere dip in its mood and might. It’s a country
surrendering to a new identity and era, in which optimism is quaint and the
frontier anything but endless. There’s a feeling of helplessness that makes the
political horizon, including the coming midterm elections, especially
unpredictable. Conventional wisdom has seldom been so useless, because
pessimism in this country isn’t usually this durable or profound. (Despair and
pessimism are where progressive states go. reading Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple or Wasting Police Time by PC David Copperfield shows that Britain
is far ahead of us. ~Bob)
Excerpt: I really like National Public Radio....and I like
Public Television too. They are the only source I've found that is willing to
spend the time to discuss an issue in detail. Yes, I know that 90 percent of
the time they are championing liberal causes, but at least they are talking
about it! So, as most of you know Burger King is planning to leave the U.S. for Canada . The King is telling Prince
Obama that he's had enough of America 's
35% corporate tax rate and find Canada 's
15% tax rates far more friendly for the corporate bottom line. (Haven't gone
into a Burger King even for coffee since they killed a veterans' documentary
unfriendly to Kerry by pulling ads from the program during the 2004 election.
They reap what they sow. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The Democrats’ corporate hero, Warren Buffett, is
playing a part in American-based Burger King buying Canadian-based Tim
Horton’s. Naturally the Democrat supporter is going to heed President Obama’s
call for “economic
patriotism” and move Tim Horton’s HQ to the U.S. so the company can pay more
taxes in the states, right? Actually, it’s going to end up the other
way around:
Excerpt: This is an important question because if we
conclude that racial discrimination is the major cause of black problems when
it isn't, then effective solutions will be elusive forever. To begin to get a
handle on the answer, let's pull up a few historical facts about black
Americans.
In 1950, female-headed households were 18 percent of the
black population. Today it's close to 70 percent. One study of 19th-century
slave families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the
children lived with the biological mother and father. In 1925 New York City , 85 percent of black households
were two-parent households. (Dr. Williams is a black economist, former
department head at George
Mason University ,
grew up in a poor, black project in Philly. I recommend his autobiography, Up from the Projects. ~Bob)
Rick Perry Puts Out
Most Brilliant Political Ad Ever
http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/08/rick-perry-puts-brilliant-political-ad-ever/
http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/08/rick-perry-puts-brilliant-political-ad-ever/
Excerpt: Rick Perry’s Super PAC is now selling $25 t-shirts
with his mugshot on the front.
“Wanted for securing the border and defeating
Democrats,” the front of the shirt reads.
On the back is the mugshot of Rosemary Lehmberg, the
Travis County District Attorney that Perry asked to step down after she was
arrested and accused of drunk driving in 2013.
US Military
Blows Up Hypersonic Weapon After Failed Test Launch
Excerpt: The U.S. Army launched a prototype hypersonic
weapon test from Alaska on
Monday (Aug. 25), only to destroy the superfast vehicle seconds later when
something went wrong. The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, as it is called, blasted
off from Alaska 's
Kodiak Launch Complex just after 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT) on
Monday, but was commanded to explode as a safety measure when an anomaly was
detected in the test flight. (Photo of explosion included. --Barb)
I suspected this one: Sadly Believable Satire Story
Fools Me
Excerpt: Ok, they did it again and got me. I regret to
inform you that the story below was from a satire site. I try to be careful
about such things, but sometimes in my haste to get you the most news in a
timely manner, something slips though. I apologize and hope you will accept
this correction. The sad part was that it really wasn’t out of the realm of
believability for Holder. ... Ferguson Gang Leader Admits “Eric Holder Paid Us
To Start Riots” (This story was in my last post. I was suspicious, labeled it
"Needs confirmation." Apparently from a "satire" site,
though not very funny. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The political left has been campaigning against the
use of force since at least the 18th century. So it is not surprising that they
are now arguing that heavily armed or aggressive police forces only inflame
protesters and thus provoke violence. Statisticians have long warned that
correlation is not causation, but they have apparently warned in vain.
White Marine Brutally
Beaten by Black Mob, In Apparent ‘Revenge’ Attack for Ferguson
Excerpt: A White former Marine suffered a severe brain
injury after a group of Black men beat him at a Mississippi
restaurant in an apparent ‘revenge’ attack for the killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson , Missouri ....
Weems was already inside the resturant when Knighten was approached by another
patron who said the men should leave since a group of Black
diners were “upset by the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson , Missouri ,
and it wasn’t a safe place for whites,” Knighten told the Associated Press. ... Police spokesperson said: the attack
“does not appear to be a hate crime.”
Funeral Pastors
Compare Michael Brown’s Death To Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/25/funeral-pastors-compare-michael-browns-death-to-jesus-christs-crucifixion-video/#ixzz3BUk02Mdi
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/25/funeral-pastors-compare-michael-browns-death-to-jesus-christs-crucifixion-video/#ixzz3BUk02Mdi
A crowd of family, friends, music stars, civil rights
leaders and preachers gathered at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church
on Monday for the memorial of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old robbery suspect who
was fatally shot by local police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. Brown’s
uncle, Pastor Charles Ewing, gave a passionate eulogy and made parallels of his
nephew’s life and that of the life of Jesus Christ. (I had dinner out last
night and the restaurant had one TV on CNN which I never watch. It took me 1
hour to finish my meal. The coverage was on Brown and his funeral; 2 minutes or
so on the damage in Napa ,
maybe 5 minutes on maybe knowing who is the British dude that cut off Foley's
head, and then the rest of the time reverted to race-baiting coverage. --Barb.
Jesus was no thug. --JB)
The Lie Behind the Lynch Mob. By John Perazzo
Excerpt: The study did not distinguish between whites and
Hispanics,[2] but instead categorized all members of those two demographics as
“white.”
So, for the moment, let’s refer to this group as “W&H” (Whites &
Hispanics) rather than “whites.” During the course of the entire 23-year period
examined in the study, 56% of all suspects killed by police were W&H, and
42% were black. Over time, W&H constituted an ever-increasing percentage of
those who were killed by police: In 1978, they accounted for 50% of all such
killings. By 1988 that figure had climbed to 59%, and by 1998 it stood at 62%.
... In 1998 specifically, 3.2 out of every 10,000 black officers killed a black
suspect sometime that year, whereas only 1.4 out of every 10,000 W&H
officers killed a black suspect.
Barack Obama:
President of the United States of
Black America
Excerpt: Dillon Taylor, 20, who is from Salt Lake ,
was exiting 7-Eleven with his brother and cousin, Adam Thayne, around 7
p.m. on Monday, when Salt Lake City
police arrived, responding to a report of a man waving a gun in the area. The
officers ordered the men to the ground. (Report I heard on Mark Levin last
night commented on this case and the disparity of WH and DOJ and NAACP
response. Dillon was about to become a father. He and his brothers were
reportedly on their way to visit their parents' graves. Dillon had ear phones
in and did not hear the cop's demands initially, as his brothers did. He
reached to pull his pants up and remove his cell phone and was shot to death. Where
are the white folks screaming and looting? The title of this article says it
all. And who wants USBA? The New Black Panthers, folks. Read their documents. We
don't have to have ISIS infiltrators
though no doubt here. They are organized in the Community, fanned with race
hate and primed to go for that ultimate transformation. --Barb)
.Excerpt: There is always racism everywhere, but America may
be the least racist country on earth. For black people to think otherwise
is to believe lies created to keep a narrative in place. The narrative gives
the people who create it power and an appearance of virtue — Holder, Sharpton,
Jackson, the news media and the rest. (As my friend John, a black Marine combat
vet of Vietnam said to me,
"Bob, there's a lot wrong with America . But if you don't like it
here, if it's not working for you, why wouldn't you go live someplace
else?" ~Bob
Worth Reading :
Cop Block
Excerpt: Does anyone remember Detective Melvin Santiago? He
was a Jersey City
police officer who was shot to death just a month ago, on July 13th. Santiago was white. His
killer, Lawrence Campbell, was black. Does anyone recall Obama appearing before
national television and calling for justice for Officer Santiagos family? Does
anyone recall Eric Holder rushing to Jersey
City to see that justice was done? ... Over the past
60 days, there have been five reported deaths of police officers by gunshot in
the US .
Of those, four were white officers who were murdered by black men. Blacks
complain that white officers threat black men more aggressively on the street.
You can draw your own conclusions on that one, as well.
Obamacare News
Obamacare
curveball : Sign of the times: The Cubs' rain-delay disaster was due, in
part, to the health-care law
Excerpt: Turns out, the damage done to the field wasn’t just
the result of typical Cubby incompetence. Earlier that night, Cubs management
had sent home 10 workers, in part to keep them under 30 hours a week — and
avoid paying health benefits under the Affordable Care Act.
Which is exactly what’s happening in business after business
across America .
Medical Device Tax
Not Producing Projected Revenue
Excerpt: One of the many new taxes in the Affordable Care
Act is the Medical Device Tax, a 2.3 percent excise tax on medical device
sales. Before the law was implemented, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
estimated that it would take in $1.2 billion from the new tax in 2013. But
according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax
Administration (TIGTA), the government took in just $913.4 million, 23 percent
less than the IRS had expected. Kyle Pomerleau, an economist at the Tax
Foundation, explains what the tax covers: pacemakers and defibrillators, for
example, are taxed, while eyeglasses and other direct consumer purchases are
not. That might seem simple, but the tax is actually quite complicated: The tax
includes a number of exemptions and safe harbors, making applicability
confusing for businesses and manufacturers.
Excerpt: Medicare Advantage consists of private plans in
which Medicare beneficiaries can choose to enroll. They were made more popular
by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which also introduced Medicare’s
drug benefit (Part D). If not for Medicare Advantage, beneficiaries would be
stuck in the traditional Medicare Part A (physician) and Part B (hospital)
plans, where the federal government determines how much to pay providers
according to bureaucratic formulae. It’s sort of like Gosplan, the old Soviet
economic pricing and planning mechanism. To escape this fate, one third of
Medicare beneficiaries now choose Medicare Advantage plans. Obamacare (“the
ACA”) was supposed to squeeze those seniors out of their plans in order to
finance Obamacare. However, when the time came, the Administration balked.
Meghan McCarthy of Morning Consult explains this “Potomac
Two-Step“:
You're Greener than Gore News
Obama Pursuing
Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty
Excerpt: In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at
a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting
with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the
world’s largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. But
under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty
only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate. (Look at how
these people speak. If you cannot get the Senate to ratify a treaty (technically, passing a resolution of ratification), then
the United States
is not a party to that treaty. Period. Full stop. The Constitution is not iffy
on this. This part is not a suggestion. There is no wiggle room. There are a
lot of nonsensical or highly exaggerated chain e-mails accusing the president
of working with foreigners to subvert the U.S. Constitution. But this time
you've got the foreigners and administration officials themselves confirming it
on the front page of the New York Times! -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Important: ‘Phony scandal’
update: Lois Lerner’s Blackberry ‘wiped clean’ after congressional
probe began. By By Doug Powers
Excerpt: Lois Lerner’s Blackberry was intentionally
destroyed after Congress had begun its probe into IRS targeting of conservative
groups, a senior IRS lawyer acknowledged in a sworn declaration.
Undocumented Democrat News
Gov. Jerry Brown to
Illegals: ‘You’re All Welcome in California ’
Excerpt: On Monday evening, California Governor Jerry
Brown said all Mexicans, including illegal immigrants, are welcome in California . (With
taxpayers fleeing the state, who will provide them with food, shelter and
health care? Go look in the mirror--or, rather, at your grandkids. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Interesting: Arab Nations Strike in Libya , Surprising U.S.
Excerpt: Twice in the last seven days, Egypt and the United
Arab Emirates have secretly launched airstrikes against
Islamist-allied militias battling for control of Tripoli , Libya ,
four senior American officials said, in a major escalation of a regional power
struggle set off by Arab Spring revolts. ... The United
States , the officials said, was caught by surprise: Egypt and the Emirates, both close allies and
military partners, acted without informing Washington , leaving the Obama administration
on the sidelines. (Why would they tell Obama, knowing he favors the Muslim
Brotherhood? WE have no influence now, Obama having alienated all sides there.
~Bob)
Interesting: A Necessary Response to ISIS . By The NYT Editorial Board
Sounds like they are calling for "A Coalition of the
Willing." ~Bob. Excerpt: The United States
cannot go it alone in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ,
the extremist group known as ISIS whose
ruthlessness and killing has dumbfounded and horrified the civilized world.
American airstrikes and other assistance from the United
States have brought some measure of relief to religious
minorities and others that ISIS has
threatened. But defeating, or even substantially degrading, ISIS
will require an organized, longer-term response involving a broad coalition of
nations, including other Muslim countries, and addressing not only the military
threat but political and religious issues. (Holy Schmoley, Batman, even the NEW
YORK TIMES editors have figured out that ISIS is a real problem for everyone,
and something really, really must be done to smash them, and that (here's the
real kicker) some Muslim countries need to get on this bandwagon too, and with
more than rhetoric. When I see this, I actually have hope that maybe this will
catch on, and more European nations will really pony up serious support and,
best of all, some Muslim nations will at the least stop supporting these
maniacs, and maybe a few others will do something, however modest, even
more significant. These nutcases can be beaten, they are not all-powerful, they
don't have 100K trained men and full capacity in artillery or air power, and a
really determined, will supplied, well led, coalition of Kurds, Iraquis, and
just maybe a few others, with total air support, satellite spy availability,
etc, can break them, start them running, and chase them until they drop. We can
all hope for this. --Del )
Worth Reading : If You Want To
Stop ISIS, Here Is What It Will Take: Killing the Islamic State
requires neither more nor less than waging war. By Angelo Codevilla
Excerpt: The Islamic State’ video-dissemination of one of
its goons beheading an American is an existential challenge from which we
cannot afford to shrink. Until the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) did that, it
made sense for the U.S. government to help contain it because the Islamic
world, which the IS threatens most directly, must destroy it sooner or later.
But internetting that beheading was a gory declaration of America ’s
impotence—a dare-by-deed that is sure to move countless young persons around
the globe to get in on killing us, anywhere they can. The longer the Islamic
State survives, the more will take up its dare. Either we kill the IS, or we
will deserve the wave of terrorism that will engulf us. (Wow... beautiful, just
beautiful. But with this President, chances run from slim to none. Closer to
none. --Del )
SAS and US
special forces forming hunter killer unit to 'smash Islamic State'
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sas-special-forces-forming-hunter-4097083#ixzz3BLSltSjC
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sas-special-forces-forming-hunter-4097083#ixzz3BLSltSjC
Excerpt: Elite British and US special forces troops are
forming a hunter killer unit called Task Force Black – its orders: “Smash the
Islamic State.” The undercover warriors will aim to “cut the head off the
snake” by hitting the command structure of the Islamist terror group responsible
for a trail of atrocities across Iraq
and Syria ,
reports the Sunday People. (And they will do it wearing flip-flops, to keep
Obama's "No boots on the ground" pledge. ~Bob)
American woman is
being held hostage in Syria
Excerpt: The Islamic State militant group is holding hostage
a young American woman who was doing humanitarian aid work in Syria , a family
representative said Tuesday. The 26-year-old woman is the third American known
to have been kidnapped by the militant group.
American Douglas McAuthur McCain Dies Fighting for ISIS in
Excerpt: Photos of McCain's passport and of his body --
which feature a distinctive neck tattoo -- have been seen by NBC News.
According to an activist linked to the Free Syrian Army who also saw the body
and travel document, McCain was among three foreign jihadis fighting with ISIS
who died during the battle. (If you made up a name like that for a novel, no
one would believe it. What a name or a California
multiculturalist! ~Bob)
Obama's Iraqi Mission Impossible
Excerpt: Anthony Shaffer, a former lieutenant-colonel
in US military
intelligence who worked on covert operations, said: “I’m told it was almost a
30-day delay from when they said they wanted to go to when he finally gave the
green light. They were ready to go in June to grab the guy [Foley] and they
weren’t permitted.” Another US defence source said: "..../. These people
are a bunch of academics who endlessly analyse stuff and ordering up another
deep-thinking paper but can't decide what to order for lunch."
Boko Haram leader
says ruling Nigerian town by Islamic law
Excerpt: "Allah has granted us success in Gwoza because
we have risen to do Allah's work," Shekau says, reading out a statement
off a notebook, with two masked gunmen on each side of him and three four wheel
drive vehicles behind him in thinly forested bush. "Allah commands us to
rule Gwoza by Islamic law. In fact, he commands us to rule the rest of the
world, not only Nigeria ,
and now we have started."
Nigerian troops cross
border after Boko Haram clashes
Excerpt: Reports claimed that the troops had joined
thousands of citizens fleeing the fighting, but Nigeria said they were conducting a
"tactical manoeuvre". Clashes are said to be continuing in the border
town of Gamboru Ngala .
European
anti-Semitism: it is the new black
Excerpt: A Tweet from Yasmina Haifi: ... Which translated into English means
roughly:
Fears for Saudi Christian
converts
Excerpt: Friends of Christian convert Khalid Muidh Alzahrani
fear the refugee has been abducted from his Christchurch
flat and taken back to Saudi Arabia
– home to the Islamic holy city of Mecca
– where it is against the law for Muslims to abandon their faith. Two Saudi
Arabian asylum seekers at opposite ends of the country have suddenly flown
home, and friends are convinced they have been forcibly repatriated because
they'd turned their backs on Islam. Tony Wall and Blair
Ensor investigate. (Muhammad commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic
religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). --Robert Spencer,
JihadWatch.org.)
Muslim toddlers being
taught to admire Jihad by practicing beheading on their dolls
Excerpt: Warning over radicalisation of children as
jihadi Twitter pictures show a young boy ‘executing’ a doll dressed in orange
in scenes that mock murder of James Foley.
Prominent Islamic Cleric Justifies Foley Beheading: “Islam
is a Religion of Beheading”
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/08/prominent-islamic-cleric-justifies-foleys-beheading-islam-religion-beheading/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/08/prominent-islamic-cleric-justifies-foleys-beheading-islam-religion-beheading/
Excerpt: If you recall, we covered a Muslim
imam who described how to kill the infidels, telling his disciples to enjoy
themselves while cutting the throats of their enemies. Now, jihadi cleric
Hussein bin Mahmoud claims "Islam is a religion of beheading. "It's
not that we needed this cleric to tell us this, but once again, I don't see
Muslims out in the streets in mass saying this is not so. In fact, the silence
of their opposition to any of what Islamists are doing throughout the world is
deafening. Their silence is complicity. (The moderates are unarmed and
scared. A few brave ones speak out--have had their stories in the blog. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Nearly 200 people from the entertainment industry
(including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
and many others) have signed a statement condemning the seventh article of
the charter of Hamas as
an "ideology of hatred and genocide." ... Interestingly, the
quotation from article seven was taken directly from Muhammad himself. Hence,
all of these entertainers have condemned Muhammad, Islam, and the Quran.
The Truth About CAIR
Video.
Suspect says he
murdered New Jersey teen as revenge for U.S. military killings in Middle
East : police
Excerpt: Ali Muhammad Brown is accused of killing a
19-year-old in New Jersey and three men in Washington State . According to court documents, the
29-year-old claimed he wanted to kill the teen as an act of 'vengeance' to
retaliate for U.S. military
action in the Middle East .
44% Blame U.S. Policies
for Worsening Relations with Islamic World
Excerpt: Voter perceptions of U.S.-Islamic relations
continue to deteriorate since President Obama’s highly publicized speech in Cairo , Egypt
five years ago reaching out to the Islamic world. Many blame recent U.S. policies
for that. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only
nine percent (9%) of Likely U.S. Voters think U.S. relations with the Islamic
world are better now than they were five years ago.
Excerpt: Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple
perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England , beaten
and intimidated, it said. ... Several
staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of
perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist” The inquiry team noted
fears among council staff of being labelled "racist" if they focused
on victims' descriptions of the majority of abusers as "Asian" men.
(Where we are headed. ~Bob)
Swedish PM on the
cost of Muslim immigration: “we will not be able to afford much else.”
By Nicolai Sennels
Excerpt: If the estimate turns out to be correct, Sweden ’s
population will increase by a million people within five years. Now Prime
Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (M) acknowledges for the first time that mass
immigration is not profitable for the Swedes….(Where we are headed. ~Bob)
Sweden’s collapse:
Every Swede pays month’s wages to finance immigration, 48 billion kroner still
needed beyond budgeted amounts. By Nicolai Sennels
Excerpt: Recently a Muslim participating in an Arabic talk
show put the Swedish police on alert as he exclaimed that “Until the day we
die, we will engage in war against Sweden
and Europe .” Asked about receiving welfare
from the Swedish infidels, he answered: “No. It is not their money, the money
can only come from god.”
Excerpt: One of the goons threw a water bottle that hit the
wife, and the 27-year-old husband was punched in the side of his head when he
came to her defense, according to law enforcement sources.
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