Update
Correction: In my review
in my last post of Pride and Discipline,
I misstated that recruit attrition had increased on Col. Myers' watch. I meant decreased. My bad. Bends and thrusts for me, many, many of them. Ready
begin!
Haven't done a health update lately.
Things on a steady keel. Slow progress. Had allergy attacks on Thursday--Friday,
and missed rehab on Friday. But I went to the Y with Bonnie Saturday and made it
all up. They dropped my FEV numbers with lots of mucus and coughing, but my O2 sats
stayed very good. ~Bob
Letter to the Editor:
Madison VA hospital care is good -- Robert A. Hall
General News and Comment
Reminder: Remember when Holder
said no president had been attacked like Obama has?
US public pension gap at least $2 trillion: Moody's
Excerpt: The U.S.
public pension gap has tripled to at least $2 trillion in less than a decade, Moody's
Investors Service said in a report on Thursday. Moody's measured the unfunded liabilities
for the 25 biggest public retirement systems between 2004 and 2012. The total future
shortfall is more than half the size of the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market,
which comprises all the outstanding debt issued by U.S. states and cities. (One of the
factors cited in The Coming Collapse of the American
Republic: And what you can
do to prevent it. By Robert A. Hall
Bridgeport State Rep. Christina Ayala arrested on 19 voting
fraud charges
Excerpt: HARTFORD >> State Rep.
Christina “Tita” Ayala, D-Bridgeport, was arrested Friday on 19 voting fraud charges.
Ayala, 31, is accused of voting in local and state elections in districts she did
not live, the Chief
State’s Attorney’s Office
said in a press release. (Must be bogus. My liberal friends assure me that voter
fraud is a GOP myth to keep minorities from voting. ~Bob)
Obama Compares His Actions
to Washington, Lincoln, FDR
Excerpt: “This is what happens at the end of wars,” President
Barack Obama boasted Tuesday when he was asked about swapping American Army Sgt.
Deserter for five vicious Taliban terrorists. "That was true for George Washington...
That was true for Abraham Lincoln and that was true for FDR. That’s been true of
every combat situation, that at some point, you make sure that you try to get your
folks back... And that’s the right thing to do.” Really? That statement blatantly
demonstrates that the most powerful man in the World and two term President of the
United States lacks even a grade school level of knowledge of American History;
specifically, history as it relates to three of our most famous Presidents ... (The
article is a beautiful example of how ignorant our President, plus his entire corps
of speechwriters and advisors, are. It's utterly depressing to realize this man
and his team are in charge of our nation, and we elected him THE SECOND TIME. Some
days I wonder if we are just doomed. --Del.
Any day you don't wonder, Del,
call me and I'll set you straight. ~Bob)
Unions, Internet Giants
Plan To Revolutionize Voting. Want elections by smart phone 'just a click away.'
By Aaron Klein
Excerpt: The AFL-CIO union has teamed up with an online voter
advocacy group funded by Internet giants and left-wing billionaire George Soros
in a new online voter registration drive, WND has found. The People’s World, a news
website associated with the Communist Party USA,
reported last
week that the “voter registration” plan is “just a click away.” Reports the
magazine: “The AFL-CIO has teamed up with TurboVote to make voting easy for you
and for your friends and family. Not only can you register or update your registration,
but TurboVote will help you with absentee ballots, vote-by-mail information, finding
your polling place and even sending reminders by email and text so you won’t forget
to vote.” (I was a member of the
Massachusetts'
Legislatures election Laws Committee. The Dems figured I could do no harm as the
reform bills I was pushing weren't going anywhere. My first election, every city
and town used paper ballots. Of course, people can screw up anything--some wrote
angry messages to the government on the ballot as though the volunteer counting
them cared. I won the election by 9 votes, but the recount by 126, thankfully--or
the senate might have tossed ten o my votes and seated the incumbent Dem. The Commonwealth
was switching over to machines. The head of the states elections department, a man
of decades of service making sure that elections were as fair and honest as possible,
told me that he was opposed to machine voting. "There is no machine made
that cannot be fixed. With paper, at least you have a record." Internet voting
will make your vote as secure as your credit card at Target or your personal information
at healthcare.gov. ~Bob)
Hong Kong: Protesters defiant amid stand-off
Excerpt: Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters are blocking
Hong Kong's streets, shutting down its business
hub and ignoring appeals to leave. The demonstrations have spread to other areas
including a shopping district and a residential area. Riot police withdrew on Monday
after overnight clashes in which they used batons and fired volleys of tear gas
to try to disperse the crowds.
Excerpt: Future generations may well commemorate Sept. 28, 2014
in the history of
Hong Kong as the day when the
famously
apolitical city turned unmistakably political. Tens of thousands
of protesters,
calling
for "true democracy" -- that is, no Beijing-led nomination process in
the planned 2017 election for the city's chief executive, its top government official
--
confronted the police in the heart of
Hong
Kong.
Vote-Buying: Obamaphone use grew 100-fold in 3 years in
Md. to twice the
number eligible
Excerpt: Six-hundred-and-forty-five thousand Maryland residents had so-called
Obamaphones in 2012 — one hundred times as many people as there were in 2009, and
double the number in that state who are supposed to be eligible for the program
based on their income. The program, officially called Lifeline, is run by the Federal
Communications Commission and imposes hefty
fees on every paying customer to give free phone service to low-income Americans.
The profits to telecom companies from the free, government-provided phone service
are so great that in Nebraska alone, 51 corporations, many of them who are not even
traditional phone companies building infrastructure and attracting paying subscribers,
fought for a piece of the pie.
Obama Bans Landmine Use Against Military Leaders’ Advice. Administration
begins destroying stockpiles despite warnings. By Adam Kredo
Excerpt: The Obama administration has banned the U.S. military from
using anti-personnel landmines in a unilateral decision that goes against warnings
from top military leaders and many in Congress. The administration stated in a series
of announcements this week that landmines will no longer be used and that the Defense
Department would begin destroying stockpiles of the devices, which have historically
been used to protect U.S. forces from enemies in warzones. (Our enemies, of course,
can still use them. Another PC decision that will kill American troops. ~Bob)
Race Card News
Excerpt: Even some of his supporters agree he’s been confrontational
and polarizing. Juan Williams of Fox News
rails
against anti-Holder “scandalmongers” but then admits “the Justice Department
has devolved into the heart of
Washington
darkness, the absolute pit of modern political polarization in my lifetime.” One
reason for that polarization is that, thanks to direct support from Holder and President
Obama himself, the Reverend Al Sharpton has now become the nation’s leading African-American
civil-rights leader. ... Al Sharpton has never apologized to Steven Pagones, the
assistant district attorney he falsely accused of raping Tawana Brawley, a black
teenager, in 1987. (No white leader, without the media's conspiracy of silence,
would have survived something as damming as Sharpton's Tawana Brawley scandal. ~Bob)
12 black thugs attack,
beat up 6 month pregnant white woman – national media silent
Excerpt: Remember
Sanford,
Florida? Ground Zero of the Trayvon
Martin case? I bet you didn’t hear about 12 black thugs
beating up
their white neighbors, including Ashley Flournoy who was six months pregnant. (It's
only a hate crime if the victims are black and the perps are white. ~Bob)
Shock: Black Babies Comprise
78% of Abortions in Mississippi
Excerpt: Recall that abortion disproportionately impacts the
African American community. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
that black Americans had a staggering 42% of all abortions in
America in 2008
(the most recent year for which abortion data is available) yet according to the
Census Bureau,
African Americans composed only 12.6 percent of the total population. (If Planned
Parenthood was a Republican organization, liberals would call this genocide. How
about billboards: "Support Planned Parenthood: They keep the welfare rolls
down! ~Bob)
Older but important: The Lie
Behind the Lynch Mob. By John Perazzo
Excerpt: Meanwhile, the trend for African Americans was moving
in precisely the opposite direction: In 1978, black suspects were 49% of those killed
by police. By 1988, that figure had fallen to 39%. And ten years after that, it
stood at 35%. Most cases where police killed suspects during 1976-98 were same-race
incidents: When W&H officers were the killers, the suspects were usually W&H
(63%). And when black officers were the killers, the suspects were usually black
(81%).
i condone police killings. bc Revolutions have always required
casualties.
#ferguson
bust back young bucks
Interesting: Ferguson
from a police perspective
Excerpt: As a former law enforcement officer with some executive
as well as street experience involving shootings and civil unrest, I have been appalled
by how this case has evolved. I have seen errors made before, but this is wrong
from just about every direction possible. From experience I can pretty well assume
how this thing started, but that would be unfair for me to interject my hunches
without factual backup.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
The Bungling of Bundled
Payments. By Sally Pipes
Excerpt: Obamacare’s two chief goals were to cut the number of
uninsured and reduce the cost of
health
care. At least one of the law’s primary ways of fulfilling the latter goal appears
to be failing. The RAND Corporation
recently examined
a pilot effort by several
California
hospitals to replace their conventional fee-for-service model with “bundled payments.”
Rather than pay for all the individual components and procedures that go into a
knee replacement, for example, insurers just remit one lump sum for the entire episode
of care. The initiative started in 2010. Four years later, the results are not promising.
Indeed, as the
RAND researchers
reported, “The
pilot did not succeed.”
Undocumented Democrat News
Mexican Cartel Beat Texan
To Death After Kidnapping And Torturing Him
Excerpt: An American citizen was beaten to death by drug cartel
members while another barely managed to survive the kidnapping and torture just
south of the Texas
border.
Teens who crossed US-Mexico
border alone entering schools
Excerpt: Some can barely read or write in their native language.
U.S. schools are now dealing
with the fallout from the dramatic spike in the number of children and teenagers
who crossed into the United States
unaccompanied by family; the Supreme Court has ruled that they have an obligation
to educate all students regardless of their immigration status.... Large numbers
of these students have moved to metropolitan areas such as Washington,
D.C., Miami
and Houston, but also to communities of all sizes in nearly every state, according
to federal data. (Gee, I thought they weren't revealing where they dumped them....to
be someone else's "legal" problem. That's ironic. --Barb)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Why do those screaming the loudest about rising ocean levels
keep buying mansions on the "doomed" coastlines?
Coming to your electric bill: Germany's Coal Binge
Excerpt: The German shift to renewable power sources that started
in 2000 has brought the green share of German electricity up to around 25%. But
the rest of the energy mix has become more heavily concentrated on coal, which now
accounts for some 45% of power generation and growing, according to the Wall Street
Journal. Germany's feed-in tariff,
which requires distributors to buy electricity from green generators at fixed prices
before buying from other sources, was part of Germany's strategy to intervene in the
market. Germans pay for market distortions, paying about $129 billion extra on electricity
bills since 200. The government estimates that these market distortions could cost
the taxpayer 1 trillion Euros by 2040. This
intervention tried to generate more use of green energy, but ended up having the
opposite effect. The tariff, for example, deprived generators of revenue and
made it harder for them to forecast demand. The more attractive option was to favor
cheap coal plants whenever renewables didn't deliver as promised.
Important: Earth-Friendly Energy Is Anything But
Excerpt: Environmentalists worship solar energy and wind power
as Earth-friendly answers to their ecological prayers. Tortoises, bats, butterflies,
and bald eagles beg to differ, says Deroy Murdock, media fellow with the Hoover
Institution. Consider the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California's Mojave Desert.
It features 300,000 mirrors that focus sunlight on three 40-story towers of power.
Inside, 900-degree temperatures yield steam, propel turbines, and generate electricity
for 140,000 homes. Ivanpah's environmental toll is stunning: BrightSource Energy,
the project's owner, could have rehabilitated a brownfield, an abandoned commercial
site, or a decommissioned military base. Instead, BrightSource developed 5.5 square
miles of virgin desert. Tortoises native to that area became refugees once BrightSource
relocated them en masse. Kit-fox dens were flattened during construction. Monarch
butterflies and birds should avoid Ivanpah at all costs. Those who traverse its
highly concentrated sunbeams often ignite. Center for Biological Diversity ecologist
K. Shawn Smallwood told the California Energy Commission last July that Ivanpah
will roast an estimated 28,380 birds annually. (When environmentalists sacrificed
millions of third world kids to Malaria by banning DDT, birds were sacred. Now green
energy is sacred, tough for the birds. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading: Where's "Patton"? By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
He was not crazy but a blunt-spoken realist warrior. And American gullibility soon
substantiated.
Islamic Terror Attacks
in the last 30 days
The list I forwarded was clipped. This the full list is her.
~Bob
Worth Reading: Why Obama
Can’t Say His Spies Underestimated ISIS
Excerpt: Reached by The Daily Beast after Obama’s interview aired,
one former senior Pentagon official who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni
jihadists in
Syria and
Iraq was flabbergasted.
“Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,”
the former official said. ... Still, other senior intelligence officials have been
warning about
ISIS for months. In
prepared testimony before the annual House and Senate intelligence
committees’ threat hearings in January and February, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the
recently departed director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said the group would
likely make a grab for land before the end of the year. (Doesn't read the intel
or BSing? Likely both. ~Bob. Would the
United States
and other free nations be better or worse off with terrorists like Osama bin Laden,
Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi running
Iraq? And would the
United States be more or less safe with
Iraq ruled by extremists
intent on its destruction? A precipitous withdrawal from
Iraq would be a victory for the terrorists, an invitation
to further the violence against free nations and a terrible blow to the future security
of the
United States of America.
--
Vice President Cheney, November 21, 2005:)
Obama: We underestimated
Islamic State extremists
Excerpt: Asked if his administration had overestimated the Iraq army's ability to fight ISIS,
Obama answered, "That's true. That's absolutely true.” (ISIS
terrorists are fighting for Allah. Iraq's troops are fighting for a pay
check. ~Bob)
Obama Throws Intelligence
Under the Bus. From The Patriot Post
The
U.S.
intelligence community is now sporting the tread marks of the Obama-Mobile after
the commander in chief said they "underestimated" the rise of the Islamic
State. In a CBS "60 Minutes" interview, Barack Obama said it's "absolutely
true" that U.S. intelligence "underestimated what had been taking place
in Syria." He admitted al-Qaida in
Iraq "went back underground"
until chaos gave them a chance to "reconstitute themselves" -- and we
missed it. This blame game is yet another pathetic political dodge by the president.
He is the one who repeated the 2012 campaign fairytale that al-Qaida was "decimated,"
despite the
large intelligence
haul from the bin Laden raid indicating otherwise. He is the one essentially
seeking a
mulligan
on his failed policy of fleeing
Iraq.
Yet the pathological narcissist in the Oval Office is telling us it's really the
fault of
U.S.
intelligence. The buck stops, er, over there.
Official: White House
aware of ISIS threat for over a year
18 months he had info but GOLF more important than US security
briefings. He WANTS this. Throwing US intelligence under the bus? You can
keep your doctor, your insurance deductible is lower, butter is cheap at $5.28 a
pound now, no inflation. If you believe anything out of this guy's mouth, you deserve
what you don't get. --Barb.
Excerpt: As the world watches the strengthening of global jihadist
movements – from ISIS to al Qaeda to dozens of affiliated and like-minded groups
– one of those inside the U.S.
government who was most vocal about the growing threats is leaving his position.
General Michael Flynn served as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency from July
2012 until last week. Throughout his tenure he challenged the Obama administration’s
hopeful and inaccurate narrative about the war against al Qaeda and jihadists –
pushback that doubtless contributed to his early departure from the agency. Flynn
isn’t leaving quietly.
Nuclear Power Play? Iran signals interest in trade-off for ISIS help
Excerpt: The Iranian government appears to be steadily leveraging
the Islamic State crisis by dangling the possibility of cooperation against the
terror group in exchange for a favorable deal on its nuclear program -- despite
the Obama administration's insistence that the issues are not linked. (They really
think Obama is dumb. let's hope not this dumb. ~Bob)
Video: Will bankers not
'boots on the ground' beat ISIS?
A very interesting discussion about the finances of ISIS and whether that's a really important vulnerability.
Personally, I'm with Ben Stein on this, yeah, do every bit on the banking thing
you can, find out who's buying the pirated oil and come down on them, come down
on every bank that is handling their money, all that is great. But yes, they have
enough millions of bucks already to keep themselves going very nicely for a very
long time, almost indefinitely. And we'll never stop the flow from Muslim "charities"
to them, enough for them to buy bullets and RPGs and food for the troops. If things
get rough on the people who live under their control, they won't care. So the main
focus has to be how to really destroy them, and that means a lot more than cutting
off a lot of their money. Ben Stein is just always both highly intelligent and highly
practical. --Del
Free Syrian Army Brigade
Armed w/Missiles by Obama Objects to Strikes on Al Qaeda. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Even rebels who supported the strikes on the Islamic
State criticized the targeting of the Nusra Front, which they consider a loyal partner
in the battle against Mr. Assad. “It is not the right time to target the Nusra Front,”
said Lt. Col. Fares al-Bayyoush, whose rebel group has received support from the
United States
and its allies.
Military analyst: ISIS 'will never be destroyed'
Excerpt: Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Chuck Nash says radical groups
like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,
or ISIS, can never be completely eradicated, and
any meaningful degrading of the terrorist army will only come with competent ground
forces working in tandem with powerful airstrikes like Americans saw Monday night.
... “It will never be destroyed. The violent element is in the DNA of Islam. It’s
in their documents. Moderates and radicals read the same documents and draw their
inspiration from the same religious texts. It will never disappear. It can only
be degraded,” said Nash, who is also a military analyst for the Fox News Channel.
Excerpt: 1. As significant as the strikes on IS/
ISIS are the attacks against al-Qaeda franchises that have
not broken away from original al-Qaeda. I’ve been arguing for a few weeks (e.g.,
here)
that IS/
ISIS is not even half of the equation —
that al-Qaeda is also more powerful than it was prior to 9/11/01. Shortly after
that, we got congressional from Obama’s national-security team and other administration
statements to the effect that al-Qaeda could be a more imminent threat to attack
the
US (even if IS/
ISIS is currently the more powerful of the two networks in
Iraq/Syria). 2. If the administration is accurately stating that the al-Qaeda threat
is imminent, the strategic importance of hitting al-Qaeda targets is obvious. But
it is also worth considering the significant legal considerations.
Important: Libya Pleads for Help in Battling Terror
Groups. By Mohammed Daraghmeh
Excerpt: Libya pleaded with the international community on Saturday
to help it stand up to Islamist-allied militias that have taken control of government
buildings, saying the United Nations must impose sanctions or risk a terrorist expansion
throughout North Africa. Ageila Saleh Eissa, president of the House of Representatives,
addressed the annual U.N. General Assembly of world leaders after weeks of fighting
among rival militias in Libya
forced nearly a quarter-million people to flee their homes. (Hey, Barack, how's
that non-Congress-authorized, lead-from-behind war to bring Arab Spring Democracy
to Libya
working out for you? ~Bob)
Allen West: 'Islamist
Sympathizer' Obama Blind To Radical Ideology Of Jihadists
Excerpt: On Breitbart News Sunday, former Rep. Col. Allen West
(R-FL) said last week's Oklahoma beheading was a "jihadist attack" and
not an act of "workplace violence," and he warned that President Barack
Obama's refusal to fully appreciate the dangers of radical Islam will make Americans
less safe at home and abroad. Speaking to host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman
Stephen K. Bannon on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, West said Obama refuses to acknowledge
the "radical Islamist" threat, instead asserting that "ISIS is not Islamic" and insisting that "Islam teaches
peace." West said it was insidious that administration officials have met with
radical Islamists, and he stated that "the enemy is here."
Interesting picture of the "suspect.: Okla. beheading suspect arrested,
linked to imam who raised money with al Qaeda leader
Excerpt: An imam with known ties to former Al Qaeda mastermind
Anwar al Awlaki
appears to have influenced the life of
Alton Nolen,
the former Vaughan Foods employee accused of beheading a woman in
Moore, Oklahoma
on Thursday. FBI documents
show that Suhaib Webb, who was once the leader of the Islamic Society
of Greater Oklahoma City, had ties to the radical American cleric
al Awlaki,
Breitbart
reported Saturday.
Al Awlaki
was killed in a
U.S. drone strike
in
Yemen
in September, 2011.
Allah Made Me Do It. By
Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. A Muslim
convert who recently became very religious beheads a woman while reportedly shouting
Islamic phrases. The authorities rush to convince everyone in sight that it has
nothing to do with Islam.
Excerpt: A fired Oklahoma
City nursing home employee was arrested Friday after a
co-worker reported he threatened to cut her head off. ... She said Muriithi identified
himself as a Muslim and said he “represented ISIS and that ISIS kills Christians,”
the detective told a judge in the affidavit. The two had not worked together before.
Village Forced to Raise
Taxes After Muslim Refugee Family Consumes 1/3 of Budget. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: A village of just 1,000 residents in Switzerland has
been forced to raise taxes because an African refugee and her seven children cost
the local authority $65,000 in benefits every month. Hagenbuch, in the Swiss canton
of Zurich, is understood to be spending close to
a third of its total annual budget on the family after they arrived from Eritrea in East Africa
three years ago.
'The Devil's Share': FGM
In Mauritania and Senegal" FGM is widespread in Mauritania and Senegal, where it is believed to be
"the devil’s share" of a woman’s body where the devil hides. (Warning
graphic images)
Man shouts 'Jews, Jews,
Jews,' fires on group walking near private school
Excerpt: “The weapon appeared to be some type of BB or air gun.
The driver yelled ‘Jews, Jews, Jews’ at the victims and fired the weapon in their
direction.” ... The suspect is described as a white male, brown hair, dark complexion,
possibly of Middle Eastern descent.
Thanks To Islam & Political Correctness, Beheading Has Hit
the Heartland. By Doug Giles
Excerpt: Last week I penned a
column titled, “THANKS TO ISLAM: ‘Beheading’ Has Been Re-introduced
Into Our Discussions”. In the column that I penned seven days ago I put forth this
warning: “For those of us in the U.S. still skipping around the maypole with rose-colored
glasses on, thinking beheadings will never happen in our neck of the woods — I’m
sure that’s what the UK thought prior to Lee Rigby’s beheading last year.”
Excerpt: Today the
US
launched its first drone strike in
Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal
agency of South Waziristan in more than a year. The CIA-operated remotely piloted
Predators or Reapers struck a compound in the town of
Wana
in
South Waziristan, Pakistani officials and Taliban
fighters
told Dawn. "Two Arab militants and two of their local allies"
were killed in the airstrike, the officials and Taliban fighters said.
Excerpt: And let’s not kid ourselves: We know there will be more
beheadings in the coming weeks, and on into the future. Apostates from Islam, homosexuals,
and perceived blasphemers will face brutal persecution and death. Women will be
treated as chattel and face institutionalized abuse. Islamic-supremacist ideology,
with its incitements to jihad and conquest, with its virulent hostility toward the
West, will spew from the mosques onto the streets. We will continue to be confronted
by a country-sized breeding ground for anti-American terrorists. The Islamic State?
Sorry, no. I was talking about . . . our “moderate Islamist” ally, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Excerpt: Arabic media outlets and Twitter accounts linked to
al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
announced
the death an AQAP leader named Abd al Aziz al Omari as result of a
US drone strike in al Jawf on September 26. Al Omari, a Saudi who
went by a
variety of noms-de-guerre
including Muslim al Azdi, Abu Omar al Kholani, and Abu Muslim al Kholani, is especially
remembered for
his role in running well-known Twitter accounts that are critical
of the American drone program in Yemen.
Excerpt: Detective Terry McGhee tracked down the top terrorist
brought to trial in the US
since 9/11 — and he did it from a wheelchair. “If it weren’t for this guy, Abu
Ghaith never would have made it to American soil,” one law enforcement source said
of McGhee, who was paralyzed in an accident six years ago but refused to retire.
(The publicity could make him a target. ~Bob)
Interesting: Progressives’ Moral
Equivalence. By Derek Hunter
Excerpt: You’ve seen this a lot in the last decade and a half:
progressives asserting a moral equivalence between radial Islam and Christianity.
The argument usually goes something like, “Yeah, sure, terrorists are bad, but they’re
hardly the only people to kill in the name of their religion!” Then there’s the
obligatory reference to the crusades. OK, sure, Christianity, like most religions,
has had some less-than-flattering moments. But it’s history. If you can point me
to the mass graves, severed heads or (destroyed) buildings for Christianity in our
lifetime… no need to finish that sentence because there aren’t any. (The Crusades
were a reaction to Islam's attempt to conquer
Europe.
Before the Crusades, they conquered
Spain,
and invaded
France, were turned
back by Charles Martel and his valiant warriors at the battle of
Tours, 732. The Islamic attempts
to conquer Europe continued for centuries, were defeated at
Vienna in 1529 and 1683, at Lepanto in 1571, where
12,000 Christian galley slaves were freed from the Muslims. Where are Charles Martel
and Don John of
Austria
when we need them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto
~Bob)
Battle of Lepanto
Baby-faced weapon: Boy,
9, heaps praise on ‘martyrs’ and ‘mujahideen’ engaged in bloody jihads throughout
the Middle East
Excerpt: All of nine years old, he stands at the front of a gathering
in Sydney reciting
passages from the Koran and lecturing followers on the importance of sacrifice in
Islam. The little boy, who according to his father’s social media profile enjoys
trips to McDonald’s and dinosaur exhibitions when he’s not giving sermons, heaps
praise on “martyrs” and “mujahideen” engaged in bloody jihads throughout the Middle
East.
KFC Customer Asks for
Bacon, Muslim Employee Says “F*CK YOU B*TCH”
Hard to tell the reason from the video, but he's mad! The customer
may be Muslim too--you can only see the edges of a person there. ~Bob
Fears of More Radicalised
Children as 'Trojan Horse 2' Scandal Emerges In London
Excerpt: A new wave of British schools are thought to have fallen
victim to Islamist extremists trying to radicalise children, a report in today's
Sunday Times suggests. Department for Education officials are said to have become
increasingly concerned over a 'Trojan Horse 2' scandal which they believe could
involve dozens of schools in East London, including in the Borough of Tower Hamlets,
known for its Islamist-linked Mayor Lutfur Rahman.
Michael Harari, Israeli
Agent Likened to James Bond, Dies at 87
Excerpt: Michael Harari, an Israeli intelligence agent who led
the hit squad that was sent to avenge the murders of 11 Israeli athletes by
Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympic
Games in
Munich,
died on Sept. 21 in Tel Aviv. He was 87.
Excerpt: Numan Haider
stabbed a police officer and a federal agent. He threatened
to kill Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. He was shot dead in the midst of
his jihad attack on the police. And apparently, from their actions at the funeral,
his family blames the Australian media. Perhaps we should send them some of our
large coterie of pro-jihad journalists, such as Christiane Amanpour, Niraj Warikoo,
Jennifer Fermino and Bob Smietana. Then they would put down their stones and show
us Islam’s peaceful and tolerant side.
