Update
Last Week Tonight
with John Oliver: Scottish Independence
This is too funny! Before the "No" vote, of
course, but he hits everyone, including himself. ~Bob
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addresses, on the theory that they want me to direct traffic to their websites. If they are too small to read, click on the picture. Please check out the websites. Site owners are welcome to correct me if they
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General News and Comment
Important: Scotland
Excerpt: The decision prevented a
rupture of a 307-year union with England , bringing a huge sigh of
relief to the British political establishment. Scots voted 55 percent to 45
percent against independence in a vote that saw an unprecedented turnout ("We fight not for
glory, nor for riches, nor for honour, but only and alone for Freedom, which no
good man lays down but with his life." --Declaration of Arbroath , Scotland Scotland
within the UK US Scotland Britains Scotland
but have lived 40 years in England Scotland Scotland
to accept the democratic vote of the people of Scotland
Robert Burns - Such a
Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
What the "Yes" votes in Scotland are singing today. ~Bob
Excerpt: The most important words printed in The New York
Times since “REAGAN EASILY BEATS CARTER” were from a front-page article last
Sunday about how, after six years of Obama, the federal judiciary is now
dominated by Democratic appointees. Edward Whelan, head of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center, responded to this by saying: “The best way for
conservative voters to prevent further damage to the courts is to swing the
Senate to Republican control in the elections this November.” He’s absolutely
right. Turn that into a mnemonic, sew it on needlepoint pillows, include it in
your wedding vows, right-wingers.
Delta Honor Guard
Excerpt: Last weekend Hillary Clinton flew down to Iowa to attend Senator
Tom Harkin's 37th annual steak fry. Just as at tax time you pay five times what
your government is worth, old Tom hawks steaks and charges five times their
worth for the privilege of sitting with the latest "liberal darling"
with an eye on the White House. So Hillary, though she says she's not running,
was there. All eyes were on her as she gnawed on a steak bone and chewed a bit
on her chances of winning the Presidency in 2016.
Bogeyman Beat Down:
Three UF Female Students Beat the Snot out of Sexual Predator
Excerpt: “The female victims fought, they yelled and they
defended themselves and they stopped their assaults,” she said. “For that, we
are all grateful.”
Excerpt: You have your own individual voter file in
Catalist. Everyone does. Under that file might be a massive amount of
information about you — more than probably exists in any other database in the
world. Whom you work for, what car you might drive, donations you have made,
assumptions based on your neighborhood, anything in a public government
database about you, consumer preferences, partisan preferences, what licenses
you have, what you might have said to pollsters on the phone, memberships, how
you treated the young left-wing activist knocking on your door a few years ago,
and on and on and on. (Still think there was voter fraud in the past election
with 150% turnout in some places reported.....and not a single vote for Romney.
Right. Don't forget the Black Panthers with the clubs out front, either.
--Barb)
V.A. Official
Acknowledges Link Between Delays and Patient Deaths
Excerpt: In a contentious hearing before Congress, a senior
official from the Department
of Veterans Affairs’ watchdog agency acknowledged for the first
time on Wednesday that delays in care had contributed to the deaths
of patients at the department’s medical center in Phoenix. The disclosure by an
official from the department’s inspector general’s office, coming after more
than two hours of tough, sometimes confrontational exchanges with members of
the House Veterans Affairs Committee, was a significant development in what has
become a heated dispute over the quality of care at the Phoenix hospital, where
revelations of secret waiting lists and other schemes to disguise long delays
in care.
Excerpt: When four South
Carolina high school students showed up to school on
the recent anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with American flags flying from
their trucks, they were in for a big surprise — the flags were confiscated
by the school’s principal.
Satire: Obama Learns of Pearl
Harbor
Excerpt: Large portions of Wisconsin
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke’s jobs plan for Wisconsin appear to be copied directly from
the plans of three Democratic candidates who ran for governor in previous
election cycles.
Obama Golf--Too Funny
Race Card News
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Replacing
Obamacare Saves a Lot of Money: Republicans have multiple plans
to offer basically the same health-care at lower cost. By James C. Capretta
Excerpt: Supporters of the Obama administration like to
create the impression that there is no viable alternative to the Affordable
Care Act — i.e., Obamacare. But that is demonstrably not true. Republican
senators Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, and Orrin Hatch introduced a
plan earlier this year that would cover
just as many people with insurance as Obamacare at a fraction of the cost.
Excerp6t: If there is one thing that the Administration and
Democratic candidates have in their favor going into the mid-term elections, it
is that election day is November 4, and Obamacare’s second open enrollment
begins on November 15. If the dates were flipped, there is little doubt that
voters affected by Obamacare would wreak havoc on the politicians who imposed
the Rube Goldberg contraption of exchanges on them. Despite having just tossed another
$60 million out the window “to help consumers navigate their health care
coverage options in the Health Insurance Marketplace,” the Administration will
likely face an even more bemused and disgruntled population of Obamacare
“consumers” than it did the first time around.
Important: Study: Pre-Obamacare Health Insurance Was
Better Quality Than Exchange Plans
Excerpt: Individual health insurance policies were of higher
quality in 2013, before Obamacare regulations hit, than the offerings on
health-care exchanges this year, according to a study released Monday. The National Center
Individuals Failing
to Verify Legal Status Will See Insurance Cancelled
Excerpt: The New York Times reports that 115,000 people will
see their health insurance cancelled on October 1. Why? Those enrollees have
not proved that they are American citizens or legal immigrants actually
eligible for Obamacare health coverage.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Climategate: Hide The
Decline - the video
Prof Bob Carter warns
of unpreparedness for Global Cooling
Excerpt: Professor Bob Carter, writing in today’s edition
of The Australian, a major Aussie daily newspaper, warns that the world is
unprepared for imminent global cooling, because of the obsession of policy
makers with global warming. (Warming has some winners in increased agriculture.
Cooling none. Ask the Norse who built settlement in Greenland
during the medieval warm period, when it was warmer than now, but died out when
the world cooled again. ~Bob)
Another benefit of climate change and increased CO2 – trees
continue to grow at a faster rate. By Anthony Watts
Excerpt: Study highlights forest growth trends from 1870 to
the present- Global change: Trees continue to grow at a faster rate: “…scientists
are putting the growth acceleration down to rising temperatures and the
extended growing season. Carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen are other factors
contributing to the faster growth.”
SHOCKER! Climate Alarmist Musical Finally Runs Out of
Taxpayer Money, Quickly Closes. By Jim Lakely
Excerpt: The asinine ambitions of our know-it-all federal
bureaucrats know no bounds. Really. No. Bounds. A collection of
bureaucrats at the National Science Foundation (NSF) used $700,000 of taxpayer
money this spring to play out their Broadway fantasies by funding what they
surely thought was a sure-fire-hit play.
Religion of Peace News
Exactly: Drag the Miserable SOB Before a Firing
Squad. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt: Brendan Tevlin was murdered by Ali Muhammad
Brown - June 25th of this year in New Jersey . (I always offer to bring my own
rifle and ammo, but they never take me up on it. ~Bob)
Worth Reading : The Jihadi Logic: Lure
the U.S. into the fight that
Obama will quit, as in Iraq ,
Libya , and (soon) Afghanistan
Excerpt: The second theory is that they were fully aware of
the inevitable consequence of their broadcast beheadings — and they intended
the outcome. It was an easily sprung trap to provoke America into entering the
Mesopotamian war. Why? Because they’re sure we will lose.
They will regret this: House approves Obama’s
Iraq-Syria military strategy amid skepticism
Excerpt: The vote placed Congress one step closer to
authorizing the third significant U.S. military operation in Iraq in the past
quarter century, and it put lawmakers on record approving U.S. engagement in
the years-long Syrian civil war. It delivered Obama much-needed domestic
political support as he seeks an international coalition to combat the growing
threat of Islamist terrorism in the Middle East .
But the tally — 273 to 156 — also revealed widespread misgivings in both
parties about the plan’s chances of success, even among lawmakers who voted in
favor of it.
James Clapper: We underestimated the Islamic State’s ‘will
to fight.’ By David Ignatius
Excerpt: The United States
has made the same mistake in evaluating fighters from the Islamic State that it
did in Vietnam
— underestimating the enemy’s will, according to James Clapper, the director of
national intelligence.
No surprise: Rift widens
between Obama , U.S.
Excerpt: Flashes of disagreement over how to fight the
Islamic State are mounting between President Obama and U.S. military
leaders, the
latest sign of strain in what often has been an awkward
and uneasy relationship. Even as the administration has received
congressional backing for its strategy, with the Senate voting Thursday to
approve a plan to arm and train Syrian rebels, a series of military leaders
have criticized the president’s approach against the Islamic State militant
group. (Sure, they may be well trained and combat experienced generals, but how
many of these "leaders" ever won a Nobel Peace Prize immediately on
taking office? Published an autobiography, never mind two, at a young age? Got
in 200 rounds of golf in under six years? Organized a community? And they think
they know it all! ~Bob)
Saving Private Kerry.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Secretary of State John Kerry didn’t appear before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to lay out an offensive
strategy for defeating ISIS . Instead his real
mission was a defensive strategy to protect Obama from critics on the
right and the left.
France launches first
airstrike against ISIS in Iraq, Hollande's office says
Excerpt: Joining U.S.
forces acting in Iraqi skies, France
conducted its first airstrike Friday against the militant Islamic State group,
destroying a logistics depot that it controlled, the French presidency said. Rafale
fighter jets involved in the mission struck the depot in northeastern Iraq on Friday
morning, and the target was "entirely destroyed," President Francois
Hollande's office said in a statement.
From the
email: This is VERY VERY VERY graphic. Warning !!! Don’t look if you have a
weak heart! The new Nazis in the name of Allah !!
Good Morning, Vietnam Syria
Excerpt: The U.S. military campaign against Islamist
militants in Syria is being designed to allow President Barack Obama to exert a
high degree of personal control, going so far as to require that the military
obtain presidential sign-off for strikes in Syrian territory, officials said.
The requirements for strikes in Syria
against the extremist group Islamic State will be far more stringent than those
targeting it in Iraq ,
at least at first. U.S.
officials say it’s an attempt to limit the threat the U.S. could be
dragged more deeply into the Syrian civil war. (BO channels LBJ; "Interference
from Washington
seriously hampered the campaign. President Johnson allegedly basted that 'they
can't bomb an outhouse without my approval.' Washington 's timidity was an outgrowth of
the advice of well-intentioned but naive officials, and its effect on a
President so politically oriented that he tried to please everybody rather than
bite the bullet and make the hard decisions..." From American Generalship by Edgar Puryear. [Thanks to Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt] ~Bob)
Senators cleverly avoid real vote on war. By Greg Sargent
Excerpt: Today, the Senate is expected to authorize the
funding and arming of the Syrian rebels, and then leave town without holding
any vote on the broader American escalation — a striking abdication of
Congressional responsibility.
Tweet From Wayne Dupree ★彡 @WayneDupreeShow
Would someone please stand up and yell at the top of their
lungs arming these rebels is arming the killers of Christians in Syria !!!! (I
have been. But my lungs are not that great. ~Bob)
Where have all the
allies gone? By Victor Davis Hanson
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0914/hanson091814.php3
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0914/hanson091814.php3
Excerpt: The so-called Islamic State has left destruction
everywhere that it has gained ground. But as in the case of the tribal
Scythians, Vandals, Huns or Mongols of the past, sowing chaos in its wake does
not mean that the Islamic State won't continue to seek new targets for its
devastation. If unchecked, the Islamic State will turn what is left of the
nations of the Middle East into a huge Mogadishu-like tribal wasteland,
from the Syrian Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf .
And they will happily call the resulting mess a caliphate.
Video: Andrew Klavan: Is ISIS
Islamic?
Kerry is Wrong,
Selling Girls as Sex Slaves is Islam. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Kerry has never read the Koran, but he
knows that Islam couldn’t possibly be that mean. ... 1. Mohammed
practiced slavery. 2. The Islamic campaigns were carried out for loot.
Including the human kind. Many of Mohammed’s first Muslims were out for slaves.
Including female slaves. 3. Mohammed enslaved and raped women These are
all facts that are not seriously in dispute. The apologists for Islam
may quibble over the rape part. That’s about it.
Excerpt: The northern Syrian city of Kobane , or Ayn al Arab, is under heavy siege
by Islamic State militants for the third consecutive day. The Islamic State is
reported to have taken control of 21 villages outside of Kobane.
It began with the red line. By Jennifer Rubin
Excerpt: When you want to understand how we got from
“ending” wars to debating whether we can avoid “boots on the ground” in a new
one, you will find no more significant event than President Obama’s decision
not to bomb Syria after Bashar al-Assad repeatedly used chemical weapons. That
decision — and our foot-dragging in sending meaningful lethal aid to the Free
Syrian Army — allowed Assad to escape any real consequences for his actions, to
solidify his position, to demoralize the FSA and to give the Islamic State
another year to grow and take root in Syria.
Excerpt: Australian counterterrorism forces detained 15
people Thursday in a series of suburban raids after receiving intelligence that
the Islamic State militant group was planning public beheadings in two
Australian cities to demonstrate its reach. (I think they should go ahead with
the beheadings...of the 15 ISIS terrorists.
~Bob. Listening
to "Coast to Coast" the other night, when the guest host wanted folks
to call in with any conspiracies they might have seen. A vet phoned in to say
he had been trained by the Israelis to spot insurgents and had, before 9/11,
actually seen Mohamed Atta sitting on a beach in S FL surrounded by a group of men and
"you could feel the power emanating from him." He said similarly, he
recently saw several men walking in S FL (I think Miami
Beach
Tweet from Angels of Heaven @PeacefulChrist
O my God Deliver me from enemies that rise against me &
from workers of iniquity & save me from bloody men. Psalms 59:1-2
Excerpt: During a roundtable with the media this week,
Secretary of State (say that without shuddering) John Kerry said
the following: “(The U.S.) has to start major efforts to delegitimize
ISIS’s claim to some religious foundation for what its doing and begin to put real Islam out there and
draw lines throughout the region. ... Instead of perpetuating this
post-9/11, politically-correct charade that Islam is “a peaceful religion
hijacked by a few extremists,” it’s good to see our chief diplomat has decided
to pursue a conversation about “real Islam.” Since I’m almost not-at-all
positive Secretary Kerry actually thoroughly vetted and researched this subject
matter before spouting off about it, I have a few questions for our newest
theologian.
Excerpt: Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed
that Pakistani Navy officers were involved in the failed attempt to hijack a
Pakistani warship and launch missiles at US Navy vessels in the Indian Ocean . AQIS' spokesman, Usama Mahmoud, made the
claim today in a statement released on his Twitter account. Mahmoud's statement
was obtained by the SITE Intelligence Group.
U.N. to dump flood of
Muslim refugees on U.S.
Excerpt: Displaced Syrians will likely make up the next big
wave of Muslim refugees coming to America . Since the early 1990s, the
United Nations high commissioner for refugees has selected 200,000 to 250,000
refugees from Islamic countries to be resettled in the United States .
Most of them have come from Somalia
and Iraq .
Syria
could soon be added to the mix in the midst of that country’s brutal civil war.
The Obama administration has been greasing the skids for the Syrian refugees
for months, WND has learned, and the refugees will soon be dumped on American
cities throughout the U.S.
Eight dead following
attack on Ebola team in Guinea
Excerpt: The bodies of eight people, including several
health workers and three journalists, have been found days after they were
attacked while distributing information about Ebola in a Guinean village near the city of Nzerekore , according to Reuters. "The eight bodies were found in the
village latrine," Albert Damantang Camara, a spokesman for Guinea 's
government, told Reuters on Thursday. "Three of them had their throats
slit." (The story doesn't mention it, of course, but Guinea is a
predominantly Islamic country, with Muslims representing
85 percent of the population. ~Bob)
MUSLIM HUMOR:
Lebanese man threatens to behead three terrified little Syrian refugee children
Excerpt: The video shows the three children sobbing as a man
standing behind a camera waves a knife and asks: “Whom do we behead
first?” “Put your hand here or else I will sever your head,” he tells one
of the terrified boys, who are crying throughout the video.
Boko Haram: Nigeria
Excerpt: Gunmen have attacked a teacher training college in
the Nigerian city of Kano ,
with officials saying at least 15 people have been killed. The attackers
exchanged fire with police outside the college before running inside. Another
34 people were injured.
Law enforcement
bulletin warned of ISIS urging jihad attacks on US
Excerpt: There will be “a continued call - by Western
fighters in Syria and
terrorist organizations - for lone offender attacks against U.S. military
facilities and personnel,” warned a July law enforcement intelligence
bulletin from the Central Florida Intelligence Exchange, a state-run
agency that gathers, assesses and shares threat information and works with the
Department of Homeland Security. “These threats will most likely increase
should the U.S. or its
allies attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) in Syria or Iraq .” In one example cited in the
bulletin, a British jihadist encouraged radicals still living in the West to
use Facebook and LinkedIn to find and target soldiers. "You could
literally search for soldiers, find their town, photos of them, look for
address in Yellowbook or something," the tweet read. "Then show up
and slaughter them.” (Just think how many Christians they can find by
registering on the Christian dating sites....A good reason to be antisocial.
--Barb. Just hang around churches Sunday morning and follow them home. ~Bob)
Iranian Leverage over
Turkey
Excerpt: The Turkish daily Taraf published a
blockbuster article Tuesday
alleging that Iran has been
blackmailing Turkey .
Turkey has been pressuring Iran , one of
its major sources
of oil and natural gas, to lower its export prices for natural gas. According
to Taraf , Iran
is now using potentially damaging documents that allege Turkish corruption and
financial crimes to blackmail Turkey ’s
leadership to drop its demands.
UK Muslim leader
Maajid Nawaz: “ISIS-style slavery, beheading, lashing, amputation…are in the
Quran” and must be rejected. By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: All that said, however, Maajid Nawaz in this Facebook post (thanks to PK) calls for exactly
what is needed, and what I have been saying is needed for many years now: a
rejection of Qur’anic literalism, and a reinterpretation of its problematic
passages so as to remove their capacity to incite believers to hatred and
violence.
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