Update
Short Health Update: All Good. I've been off supplemental oxygen now for 17 days and the
OI2 sats are fine. I haven't been in the hospital since July 7, two months. My
FEV numbers average Sunday was 1.54, compared to 0.91 on July 7. In rehab
Monday I added two minutes on the treadmill, so 22 at 2.3 MPH plus the 2-minute
cool down at 1.5, and the O2 stayed at 94% or above. Did 5 sets of 10 reps each
on the chest press (added 10 lbs Friday) the leg press, the lap pull and the
resistance band. Breathing still some labored with exercise, but not as much.
Clearly the BiPAP is helping. I bought a car adapter so was able to use it for
6 hours in the car Sunday, as we made a quick visit to the Chicago area. So steady progress right now.
I was out of Pocket Sunday and at
Rehab Monday morning, so I have about 40 emails I haven't had time to get to,
but thought I'd better post what I have. ~Bob
New blog comment on "Worth
Reading Political News and Comment.:
Obat Kista Ginjal has left a new
comment on your post: kunjungi kami gan. (I'm
not exactly fluent in whatever this language is, but I'm sure it means
"You, Sir, are a charming and brilliant writer," and not, "Eat
#%^# you *#*&%$@ pig!" ~Bob)
General News and Comment
Click on graphic to enlarge if needed. The website www.misguidedchldren.com is a great news source. Check it out. ~Bob
Book Recommendation: Texans Guns And History. By Col. Charles Askins
Written in a folksy, story-telling style, this is an
entertaining tale of Texas Rangers, Indians, lawmen, killers, rustlers, and
gunslingers that will be an enjoyable history for those who like westerns. It
starts with the rangers in the 1870s and ends with Bonnie and Clyde .
First published in 1970, the author lacked the benefit of political correctness
and multiculturalism. For example, instead of calling the Indians "Native
Americans," he calls them savages, because when they took prisoners,
white, Hispanic or Indian, they amused themselves torturing the men to death
over a period of days. The women were repeatedly raped. If they withstood that,
and were attractive enough, they might be kept as slaves, otherwise they met
the same fate. I mean who are we to judge their culture? When you don't have
cable, the best entertainment around is listening to another human scream his
lungs out as you slowly peel the skin from his body with a knife. The book has
lots of reports of shootouts.
Excerpt: The survey of these districts also found that
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has a one point lead over his Democratic
challenger, Madison School Board member Mary Burke (47 percent to 46 percent,
respectively). ... Walker has
pledged to expand the state’s government-subsidized private school
voucher program; his opponent, Mary Burke, wants it abolished. So perhaps Walker should feel good
about where he stands on this particular issue: after all, the NMB Research
poll found that education reform initiatives in the state are wildly
popular:
The 1980s are calling again, Mr. President: Russian
strategic bombers near Canada
Excerpt: Two Russian strategic bombers conducted practice
cruise missile attacks on the United States during a training mission last week
that defense officials say appeared timed to the NATO summit in
Wales....Analysis of the flight indicated the aircraft were conducting practice
runs to a pre-determined “launch box”—an optimum point for firing nuclear-armed
cruise missiles at U.S. targets, said defense officials familiar with
intelligence reports.Disclosure of the nuclear bombing practice comes as a
Russian general last week called for Moscow to change its doctrine to include
preemptive nuclear strikes on the United States and NATO.
Republican Wallops
Democrat in Gubernatorial Debate
Excerpt: On Thursday night Kashkari did battle with Governor
Brown on the debate stage and most observers called the challenger the clear
victor. It was the only debate the two men will hold and for the Republican it
will have to be enough. He is the underdog in a very blue state – but things
are bad enough in California that voters may be willing to vote for a moderate
Republican if it means finding work sooner rather than later.
http://lastresistance.com/7181/obama-narrative-falls-apart-fed-reveals-rich-got-richer-obama-poor-lost-money/
Excerpt: According to Jennifer Pompi of the Washington
Times: “Under President Obama, the richest 10 percent were the only income
group of Americans to see their median incomes rise, according to a survey
released this week by the Federal Reserve. The Fed data covered the years
2010-2013, during which period Mr. Obama constantly campaigned against income
inequality and won re-election by painting his Republican rival as a tool of
Wall Street plutocrats.”
Rick Perry’s Indictment Should Scare All Americans.
By Pat Nolan
Excerpt: The indictment of Governor Rick Perry should send a
shudder down the spine of every American. The vindictive special prosecutor
used Humpty Dumpty’s logic to say statutes say the opposite of their plain
meaning in order to charge the governor with a crime for exercising his lawful
veto. If a popular sitting governor can be indicted on such a flimsy basis,
then every one of us is vulnerable.
More IRS employees
lost emails
Excerpt: The IRS on Friday told Congress that five of the 82
people being questioned about the agency’s tea party targeting scandal lost
emails as a result of computer crashes, including one official who worked
closely with former IRS official Lois Lerner. ... The same letter — in which
Issa also thanks Koskinen for agreeing to testify at a Sept. 17 hearing — says
TIGTA found 760 unsearched exchange server drives that could possibly have
back-ups of Lerner’s emails. The IRS, TIGTA told the panel, never searched
these drives to find Lerner’s emails. “The IRS’s ever-changing story is
practically impossible to follow at this point, as they modify it each time to
accommodate new facts,” Issa said in a statement.
Labor Participation Rate Drops To Lowest Since 1978; People
Not In Labor Force Rise To Record 92.3 Million. Tyler Durden
Excerpt: It is almost as if the Fed warned us this would
happen. In a note released yesterday, a Fed working paper titled "Labor
Force Participation: Recent Developments and Future Prospects", looked
at the US labor force and concluded that "while we see some of the current
low level of the participation rate as indicative of labor market slack, we do
not expect the participation rate to show a substantial increase from current
levels as labor market conditions continue to improve." But don't blame it
on the greatest recession/depression since 1929: "our overall assessment
is that much - but not all - of the decline in the labor force participation
rate since 2007 is structural in nature."
Tweet from AngieSenseiofSass @Artist_Angie
#GovtCodeWords:
Terrorist: U.S. Citizen who: 1. is member of tea party 2. owns gun 3. is a
Christian. High level alert if all 3
Ravens sack Ray Rice
after video emerges of elevator punch
Excerpt: The Baltimore Ravens fired running back Ray Rice
after new video emerged showing the vicious punch he used to drop his
then-fiancée in the elevator of an Atlantic
City hotel. (About time pro sports got serious about
their hired thugs. They need to be tough on all serious misconduct, not just
political correct areas like hate speech or domestic violence. ~Bob)
'It's coming': The
rare and dangerous virus spreading to kids nationwide
Excerpt: CDC
officials believe human enterovirus 68 (HEV68) is at the root of the mysterious
epidemic; they are waiting on test results to confirm the suspicions. HEV68 has
no vaccine and no specific treatment, although some experts say the whooping
cough and flu vaccines may help prevent children from contracting the virus.
... Mary Anne Jackson, Children's Mercy Hospital
IRS Had 'Secret Research Project' On Conservatives. Lois
Lerner warned colleague questions by Congress were 'dangerous.' By Garth Kant
Excerpt: The government watchdog group Judicial Watch has
unearthed more bombshells in the IRS scandal, using the federal court system to
get information Congress has been unable to obtain directly from the tax agency
or the Justice Department. ... The just-released
emails reveal the IRS had a “secret research project” using lists of
donors to mostly conservative organizations that an agency attorney appeared to
admit it never should have had in its possession.
Chicago
Worked 12 hour shifts at airport
Police Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Was Dragging when I get
home after 1800. So I do not get to catch up on newspapers And e-mails
until Monday. Front page of Jacksonville
daily rag. "Navy sending Navy doctors to train in the ERs of Chicago
hospitals - closest environment to combat!" I kid you not. What a
great advertisement for visiting Chicago .
What does that say about us?? Semper Fi. --Micky
As Scotland vote looms, Britain
Excerpt: The once-unthinkable prospect that Britain
could be ripped apart this month with a vote for Scottish independence became
bracingly real Monday after the campaign to keep the three-century-old union
together was accused of panicking amid polls showing the referendum in a dead
heat.
Excerpt: Shaken by polls showing momentum shifting toward
independence for Scotland ,
the British government will offer proposals for greater political and fiscal
autonomy for the Scots if they vote to remain within the United Kingdom in a referendum on
Sept. 18, George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer, said on Sunday. (In Greatest Outlander-TV-Series Publicity Stunt of All Time, Scotland
Inches Closer to Independence
Worth Reading : Britain on the
Brink of a Breakup: Polls suggest Scottish independence is a
possibility, which could be a boon for British Tories. By John Fund
Excerpt: Scottish voters are currently much more hostile
than the U.K.
electorate overall to free markets — Scots view capitalism as the basis for the
Thatcher government’s decision to close unprofitable Scottish industries in the
1980s. ... If 59 Labour-party and Scottish National MPs from Scotland leave
Westminster, Tories in the current House of Commons would go from being 21
seats short of a majority to having an outright 20-seat majority. “It is
unlikely that without Scotland
the rest of the United
Kingdom would elect a majority Labour
government anytime soon,” says Eamonn Butler of the Adam Smith Institute.
The three most important numbers in the new Senate polls.
By Aaron Blake
Excerpt: New NBC
News/Marist College polls released Sunday in three key Senate races
are largely good news for Republicans. The trio of surveys shows Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) building
leads in some key races that will decide the majority.
Senate Races:
Headline Results
Pretty good news for the GOP. But a ways to go and some are
very close. ~Bob
Veteran Democrat
Faces Hurdles to Re-election
Excerpt: Now, Mr. Tierney, 62, is bracing for another fight for
his political life. Roll Call last year listed him as one of the 10
most vulnerable House incumbents, and in an update last month said he “remains
vulnerable — in his primary, but more so in his general election.” And this
time, he has to jump through two hoops. First, he faces four fellow Democrats,
including one particularly strong opponent, in the primary on Tuesday. If Mr.
Tierney prevails, he faces the same Republican who nearly beat him in 2012.
Race Card News
NY Black Councilwoman
Claims Police Are Going to Exterminate All Blacks
http://lastresistance.com/7185/ny-black-councilwoman-claims-police-going-exterminate-blacks/
http://lastresistance.com/7185/ny-black-councilwoman-claims-police-going-exterminate-blacks/
Excerpt: “While we believe in peace and reconciliation, as
what point do we simply face the facts that AMERIKKKA has no love for the Black
Nation and that there is something inherently wrong and that WE have become the
race to disseminate and destroy. ... No one can remember the last time an
unarmed white person has been killed by police. (You might send her this story:
‘Justice for Dillon Taylor’ sought for white Utah man fatally shot by black officer
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/3/justice-dillon-taylor-after-white-utah-man-fatally/
Excerpt: Taylor,
who is white, was reportedly unarmed when he was shot two times near a 7-Eleven
on Aug. 11 after a confrontation with police officers.
Gang Of Black Teens
Beats White Memphis
Excerpt: Late on Saturday night, a mob of black
teens swarmed a Kroger grocery store in Memphis , Tennessee
Excerpt: However, there are a number of problems with the
fundamental premise of white privilege. One problem is that there are so many
successful black Americans who have done what successful people of any race
do: ... But perhaps the biggest problem with the underlying premise of
white privilege is that when applying the socio-economic indicators its
purveyors use to justify their arguments, Asian Americans come out on top, not
white Americans. (When the government discovered that banks [including
black-owned banks!] were giving loans to whites at higher rates than to blacks,
they forced the banks to give loans to poor credit risks. This was a big factor
in the 2008 housing collapse and recession. But Asians were getting loans at
higher rates than whites because--duh--they had better credit ratings as a
group. The government did nothing about this clear racial discrimination
against whites. ~Bob)
Inadvertently? Government Policies Inadvertently Hurt
Black Americans
Excerpt: In an interview with Reason TV, author Jason Riley
discusses how government policies, including anti-poverty measures and
affirmative action programs, have inadvertently hurt the black population.
According to Riley, these policies -- intended to help black Americans -- have
only caused economic problems: Minimum wage laws and other anti-poverty
programs have priced many workers out of the labor force, explains Riley. And
wage laws that make it more expensive for businesses to hire people hurt the
less skilled, less experienced workers the most. In the 1940s and 1950s, prior
to these policies, the rate of black participation in the labor force was much
higher. In fact, the black poverty rate fell by 40 percentage points between
1940 and 1960 before the implementation of these programs.
Letter from Rochester
Excerpt: Didn’t know if you had heard about the murder of a
(white) policeman here in Rochester
last week by a black man. Daryl Pierson was just 32 years old and just returned
to the job on Tuesday after rehabbing for several month from a workplace injury.
He leaves a wife, 4 year old son and infant daughter. (I'm so mad about
this, I may go to Rochester
and loot a store in protest. ~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
ObamaCare's Very,
Very Bad Week
Excerpt: It's difficult to imagine a more difficult week for
those still clinging to their ObamaCare delusions. It's always hard to
guess where a wave begins, but let's start with Sunday. On Sunday,
the Washington Postreported that Healthcare.gov had no mechanism for
handling enrollment errors. If you find that ObamaCare has made some mistake
with your enrollment (for example, saying you have seven instead of six wives),
you're asked to fill out a seven-page form and mail it to Kentucky . It arrives in Kentucky , is scanned into a computer, and
dies. The Kentucky
computer cannot communicate with Healthcare.gov. You're out of luck, sucker.
The Staggering
Cost of ObamaCare
Excerpt: Although the total cost of ObamaCare is beyond
calculation, it is possible to examine some of the components that contribute
to the astronomical – and ultimately budget-busting – total. bama's
favorite sleight of hand is to ask the public to focus on health insurance
premium costs. He hopes Americans won't notice what his other hand is doing.
Although the news on ObamaCare premium costs is certainly bleak, premiums are
only the tip of the ObamaCare cost iceberg.
Excerpt: Perhaps we should celebrate this conclusion from
Obamacare’s supporters. Previously, some cheered the theory that Obamacare,
which expands Medicaid eligibility and heavily subsidizes health insurance for
middle income households, would lead people to voluntarily reduce their working
hours. In 2010, then Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged people
who wanted to be musicians, for example, to quit their jobs and focus on their
(as yet undiscovered) talents, because taxpayers would underwrite their health
coverage. This approach was endorsed in the Congressional Budget Office’s
conclusion that Obamacare would reduce employment by 1.5 percent in 2017 and
2.0 percent in 2024 (amounting to 2 million to 2.5 million jobs).
Undocumented Democrat News
Obama: Illegals
Should Not Have To ‘Look Over Their Shoulder
Excerpt: Perhaps signaling that he will soon enact executive
actions to ease even more deportations, President Barack Obama said on Friday
that illegal immigrants should not have to "look over their shoulder"
while in the country illegally. (Neither, then, should other law breakers
like drug dealers, gang bangers, rapists, and convenience store strong armed
robbers. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Click on graphic to enlarge if needed.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: It is a muddle, a murk and a desperate-looking
thing, the president on the subject of the Islamic State. The Islamic State is
the junior varsity. No, it is a “cancer.” We will “degrade and destroy” it. No,
we’ll render it “a manageable problem.” It’s all so halting, herky-jerky and,
for a great power, embarrassing.
Worth Reading : You
Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html
Excerpt: The dramatic arrival of Da'ish (ISIS) on the stage ofIraq has
shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed -- and horrified -- by its
violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. But more than this, they find
Saudi Arabia 's ambivalence
in the face of this manifestation both troubling and inexplicable, wondering,
"Don't the Saudis understand that ISIS
threatens them, too?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html
Excerpt: The dramatic arrival of Da'ish (ISIS) on the stage of
Worth Reading
Excerpt: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was sometimes faulted by
literary critics for caricaturing the evil orcs as
uniformly bad. ... In the 21st century we are often lectured that such
simplistic, one-dimensional evil is long gone. A ubiquitous civilization has so
permeated the globe that even the worst sorts must absorb some mitigating
popular culture from the Internet, Twitter, and Facebook, as if the sheer speed
of transmitting thoughts ensures their moral improvement. Even where democracy
is absent, the “world community” and a “global consciousness” are such
that billions supposedly won’t let Attila, Tamerlane, and Genghis Khan reappear
in our postmodern lives. (Hanson hits it home again, explaining that however
much some people want to deny its existence, evil does exist, and sometimes
manages to grow into huge forces that commit crimes that boggle the mind. History
has plenty of examples, but we only have to look as far as the "Final
Solution" of the SS or the Rape of Nanking to see it in action, or not too
far at all, with Pol Pot's horrendous practices and mega-scale massacres. Or
just what existence is like in North
Korea today. It's mindblowing to see the
denials of evil by various sources. But there's always been some of that, in
every major conflict, and fortunately in the USA there have always been enough
realists and patriots to understand and react appropriately. At least, until
now. --Del )
Excerpt: In a documentary broadcast August 27th on the
Kurdish station STERK TV, captured “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant”
(ISIL) elements say the group has been raping men in a ceremony it describes as
“marriage” and recording this to use as blackmail and force them to join. SIL
uses rape, including gang rape, as a tactic of fear to intimidate populations
it seeks to control, according to an August 28th report by the Firat News
Agency, a Kurdish agency based in Amsterdam .
Tweet from IrmakYenisehirlioglu @Irmak_Ye
#Kurdish
(YPG) commander, one of many women (about a third of all Kurdish fighters) bent
on to make life hell for #IS.
(Pretty woman. God help her if captured by ISIS .
But at least she has a strategy. ~Bob)
Where are the marches
against the Islamic State? By Yasmine Bahrani
Excerpt: This summer, many Muslims marched in the streets
of London, Paris and
other cities to condemn the deaths of Gazans at the hands of Israel .
... But, inexplicably, there have been no similarly large-scale demonstrations
against the Islamic State for its horrific acts against Christians, Yazidis and
even its fellow Muslims in Iraq
and Syria .
And there certainly haven’t been any marches protesting the beheading of innocents . It’s not hard to
organize a march. .. When I asked about the murder of Iraqi civilians by Sunni
and Shiite gangs, my fellow Muslims
dodged my questions:
Excerpt: Zeinab Noun said her 20-year-old son, Abbas Medlej,
was “sacrificed” after supporters of the militant Sunni group posted images
appearing to show a captured Lebanese soldier before and after he was beheaded.
‘Property of US
Govt’: Islamic State jihadists armed with US military weapons
Excerpt: Islamic State fighters appear to be using captured US military issue arms and weapons supplied to
moderate rebels in Syria by Saudi Arabia ,
according to a report published on Monday. The study by the London-based
small-arms research organisation Conflict Armament Research documented weapons
seized by Kurdish forces from militants in Iraq
and Syria
over a 10-day period in July. The report said the jihadists disposed of
“significant quantities” of US-made small arms including M16 assault rifles and
included photos showing the markings “Property of US Govt”. (Long time blog
readers will recall I was opposed to arming the "moderates." My
refrain was, "There are no good guys in Syria ." Alas, proved too true.
~Bob)
Another lucky survivor: How One Man Survived an ISIS Massacre
Excerpt: But he really got scared when the pickup trucks
that were supposed to take them to nearby Mount Sinjar Zakho .
“But when we refused, they said there was no problem and we wouldn’t be
harmed.” But the militants were lying. (This time it was to wipe out an
entire village, all the men killed, all the women to be sold into slavery. And
some very smart, highly educated, very considerate people are finding it
unsettling that the adjective "evil" has been applied to ISIS . As one columnist asked, if these guys, with their
massacres, crucifixions, rapes, slavery policy, and beheadings as joyous sport
are not evil, what in the world is? Is the concept of evil so upsetting to you
that you just can't bear it and need to be "comfortable" so badly
that you find it preferable to hide your head in the sand and just not see the
reality of this horror? How can anyone expect Western Civilization to survive
if such delicacy continues to spread among our intellectuals and others? Time
to wake up and smell the pungent odors of torture and murder. --Del )
Editorial: Libya Star , Lebanon
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Editorial/2014/Aug-27/268596-libya-new-terror-hub.ashx#axzz3Cl27jdph
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Editorial/2014/Aug-27/268596-libya-new-terror-hub.ashx#axzz3Cl27jdph
Excerpt: As with the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq in 2003, Western
military support for the ousting of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 was motivated by
self-interest. And just with the Iraq invasion, it was done with
little concern for prolonged stability in the country or the creation of strong
institutions. Now we see the aftereffects of this ill-thought out intervention,
with two rival Libyan governments vying for a place at the table, and various
militias battling each other across the country.
Tweet from BT @back_ttys
You have sealed your fate, IS. You backed Obama into a
corner, and now he's going to hit you with a speech
Excerpt: What is saddest about the mass sexual exploitation
of children in the town of Rotherham ,
in the North of England, is that it happened at all. But what is most
infuriating is that, despite numerous alerts from social workers and at least
three independent investigations, the local police and political leadership did
so little about it for so long. ... What appears to have been at work is a
problematic multiculturalism to which European countries have subscribed too
easily.
This came in an email food, that
claimed it is a sign in Dearborn ,
MI . Cannot verify and lots of things are faked
on the Internet by idiots. ~Bob
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