Update
From a blog reader
and contributor
Hi Robert! My son in law did the GoRUK challenge yesterday
and he and his buddies raised money for wounded Marines. I donated in your
honor. Be well my friend! --Gail S. (the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund forwarded
this to me.
~Bob)
General News and Comment
Excerpt: Tucking into a dish of Scottish haggis is not a
task for the fainthearted. There are various haggis recipes, but basically it
is sheep’s pluck — the heart, lungs and liver — cooked together, then mixed
with suet and oatmeal and boiled in a sheep’s stomach, then served, sometimes
drenched with Scotch. People who pour whisky on oatmeal are not shrinking
violets. Remember this on Thursday when Scotland votes on independence from the United Kingdom .
There are economic reasons for and (mostly) against Scotland
disassociating from the queen’s realm. This issue, however, touches chords of
memory more interesting than money.
Scottish History Lesson: Scotland 's
Independence
I sent my friend Seamus the George will article above. He is
a brother Marine and combat vet of Vietnam ,
who loves Scotland and Ireland ,
is a piper, into Celtic music and far more knowledgeable on Scottish and Irish
history than I am. He wrote a long response, below with great history lessons on
Scotland
I thought was worth sharing. ~Bob
The Assault Weapon
Myth. By Lois Beckett, New York
Times
Excerpt: But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed,
even gun control advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the
sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference. It turns out
that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000
Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.
Pelosi:
"Civilization As We Know It Would Be In Jeopardy If Republicans Win The
Senate"
Excerpt: MAHER: This and ISIS
are threatening civilization. Oh, no. PELOSI: Yeah, it is really important.
(She says that like it would be a bad thing! I suppose it could cut into the
massive government debt and unfunded liabilities that will create fiscal collapse,
the culture of violence and dependency that plague the under-classes, the
ever-growing government with an unappeased hunger to develop bureaucracies that
control every aspect of our lives--but I doubt it. ~Bob)
Watch the Video: City seeks favorable ruling in SWAT
incident lawsuit; police video shows what happened
Excerpt: The city of Evansville
is seeking a favorable judgment in a lawsuit brought by a local woman alleging
the Evansville Police Department violated her constitutional rights when its
SWAT team tossed flash grenades into her home and forced their way inside to
serve a search warrant more than two years ago. ... In the video, Stephanie
Milan, then 18 years old, can be heard yelling, “Don’t hurt me!” at the
officers. Only she and her then 68-year-old adoptive mother Louise Milan were
in the house when police shattered a glass door and burst in after throwing the
flash grenades inside. (Looked a bit over-blown to me. ~Bob)
Victim files
complaint against AG candidate over sexual assault case
Excerpt: Happ -- the Democratic candidate for attorney
general -- came under fire after her office gave a deferred prosecution agreement to Daniel J.
Reynolds, who had been charged with felony counts of first-degree and
second-degree sexual assaults of a child. Under the deal, Reynolds'
offense would be reduced to a disorderly conduct violation if he stays out of
trouble for 12 months and completes other requirements. Records show Happ
and her husband sold a piece of property to Reynolds under a $180,000 land contract that was executed in 2009
and paid off three years later. (As Obama said about his golfing after the
Foley murder, she "should have considered the optics." ~Bob)
Excerpt: Peterson, a six-time Pro Bowler, is alleged to have
beaten his 4-year-old son with a thin, whip-like tree branch, or “switch,”
causing numerous injuries. Minnesota
has deactivated him for Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots. (If
sexual assaults of a child draw a disorderly conduct plea, Peterson should get
by with an overtime parking ticket. ~Bob)
Federal appeals court
reinstates voter ID law
Excerpt: In a stunningly fast decision, a federal appeals
court in Chicago reinstated Wisconsin ’s voter photo identification law
on Friday — just hours after three Republican-appointed judges heard arguments
on reactivating the hotly debated law in time for the November election.
Obamacare, Cost Curves, the Ever-Worsening Entitlement Crisis, and the Case for Spending Restraint. By Daniel J. Mitchell
Obamacare, Cost Curves, the Ever-Worsening Entitlement Crisis, and the Case for Spending Restraint. By Daniel J. Mitchell
Excerpt: I’m very worried about
the burden of government spending. Moreover, I’m
quite concerned that poorly designed entitlement programs will lead
to fiscal disaster. And I’m especially irked that Obama made the problem worse
by ramming through yet another misguided and costly health care entitlement.
Excerpt: The Democrats are in an orgasmic frenzy over news
from Wasilla , Alaska Iraq
war veteran and an old boyfriend of his sister Willow . Words got heated so the combatants
were kind enough to take the fight out to the front yard where it got physical.
Reportedly, while the men folks were basically just beating their chests, the
women got into some real fisticuffs. Sarah got in her share of licks but
witnesses said it was daughter Bristol
who displayed a deadly left hook that did some serious damage. Eventually the
cops came but the alcohol had worn off a bit and none of the combatants wanted
to press charges against each other...just your normal Momma Bear-Soccer mom
weekend.
Excerpt: Ehrlich, 56, a former congressman who served one
term as Maryland ’s
governor, said in a phone interview that he is, for the moment, simply looking
to reenter the national political fray after keeping a low profile in recent
years as he has practiced law and hosted a talk-radio program. ... Ehrlich said
his still-evolving pitch is mostly “pragmatic” and about the need for
“problem-solvers,” rather than ideological hardliners, to rise in the GOP so
that the party could draw increased support from women and blue-state skeptics.
Authorities ID Pennsylvania
Excerpt: The gunman who ambushed two Pennsylvania state troopers late Friday
night, killing one and injuring the other, is on the loose and dangerous,
authorities said at a Saturday afternoon press conference. The two troopers
were ambushed outside a state police barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania during a late-night shift
change. (How large will the White House delegation to the funeral be? At least
the three BO send to Michael Brown's funeral, yes? ~Bob)
Excerpt: Republicans have a 58.0% chance of winning a
majority.
Is he doing it out of spite? Another beheading, another
Obama golf game. Even Piers Morgan weighs in. By Joe
Saunders
Excerpt: It’s Sunday afternoon, do you know where your
president is? Of course you do. Closing in on Round 200 of his two-term
administration, President Obama hit the links yet again on Sunday,
squeezing out the last days of golfable weather in the Northeast by going to
the greens. (To update Kipling, " If you can keep your head when all about
you are losing theirs and blaming it on you" --then it must be time
to hit the links! ~Bob)
Tweet from Kathleen @katnandu
Behind 3 women together today at the store. They used an EBT
card and I saw them in the parking lot loading the groceries into their Audi.
(At Walgreens, saw a healthy guy, 20s, try to buy an energy drink with an EBT
card. Wouldn't take, so he paid with A $100 bill. Clerk said to me, "Our
money." ~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Excerpt: Iowa
Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin said Sunday Hillary Clinton’s “fingerprints are all
over” Obamacare. The Iowa senator was
introducing Clinton
to speak at his 37th annual Steak Fry. “One of the things she always worked on
was advancing this concept, this idea that health care should be a right and
not a privilege in this country,” Harkin said. (It's a major problem that
liberals don't understand the difference between a "right" and a
"good." I get as much freedom of speech, religion and the press as
Warren Buffet or Bill Gates. You and I will never get as much healthcare, food,
housing, etc as they do--it can't be done. If they are "rights," we
should all get the same amount of those rights. ~Bob
Glitch in health care
law allows employers to offer substandard insurance. By Jay Hancock
Excerpt: A flaw in the federal calculator for certifying
that insurance meets the health-care law’s toughest standard is leading dozens
of large employers to offer plans that lack basic benefits, such as
hospitalization coverage, according to brokers and consultants. (A flaw in
Obamacare? How can that be? Guess they should have read the bill. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Sarah Kliff, another ObamaCare supporter,
estimates that health reform has enabled about 5 million people to become newly
insured. But that’s only about 10 percent of the uninsured. What happened to
the mandate that required that everyone have health insurance this year or face
a fine? Turns out that the mandate doesn’t actually apply to millions of
people. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that
90 percent of the uninsured are exempt from the mandate.
Worth Reading
Google the title if you hit a pay wall. ~Bob. Excerpt: It
has been four years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, so I thought
it may be useful to provide the perspective of a physician providing daily
medical care. I am an endocrinologist in Washington ,
D.C.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: Back in the Bad Old Days, tyrants bent others
to their will with machine guns and death camps. But what fig leaf can modern,
touchy-feely, petty tyrants use to make sure other people remain “in
compliance?” How about Saving the Planet?
Religion of Peace News
Must Read: The Covert Origins of ISIS
Excerpt: Would it interest you to know who helped these
psychopaths rise to power? Would it interest you to know who armed them, funded
them and trained them? Would it interest you to know why? This story makes more
sense if we start in the middle, so we'll begin with the overthrow of Muammar
Gaddafi in 2011. (Foreign policy incompetence and cover-up! Now, there is no
obvious solution since NATO and Middle Eastern allies refuse to support an
unwilling and leaderless Obama. GBH, MajGen, USMC (Ret). "Must Read"
doesn't mean I verify it as true--I don't have the Intel access to do that.
~Bob)
ISIS Beheads British
Aid Worker, Releases Video – Cameron Tweets ‘Pure Evil’
http://patdollard.com/2014/09/breaking-isis-beheads-british-aid-worker-releases-video/
http://patdollard.com/2014/09/breaking-isis-beheads-british-aid-worker-releases-video/
Excerpt: Islamic State militants have released a video
claiming to show the beheading of British aid worker David Haines.
PC Idiot: Susan Rice: It’s Not a War Because We Don’t
Have Combat Boots on the Ground
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/12/Susan-Rice-It-s-Not-A-War-Because-We-Don-t-Have-Combat-Boots-On-The-Ground
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/12/Susan-Rice-It-s-Not-A-War-Because-We-Don-t-Have-Combat-Boots-On-The-Ground
Excerpt: “We’ll not have American combat forces on the
ground fighting as we did in Iraq
and Afghanistan ,
which is what I think the American people think of when they think of a war, so
I think this is very different from that.” (As others have noted, Japan didn't have boots on the ground at Pearl Harbor . I supposed if we nuked every Muslim
country, no one would call it war? PC Idiots, if you'll pardon the redundancy.
~Bob)
PC Idiot: Used Koran Salesman Obama: “The Islamic
State Is Not Islamic”
Excerpt: “No religion condones the killing of
innocents,” Obama lied, pretending that The Koran’s numerous commands
and exhortations for worshippers of Allah to terrorize, slaughter, and behead
“infidels,” as the way to advance the Muslim ideology and earn one’s way into
paradise, did not exist.
Excerpt: London Islamic
cleric Anjem Choudary, a long-time controversial Islamist in the UK , finally
came out and admitted what all of us who don't have our heads in the sand have
been saying. The same
imam that encouraged Islamists to get on welfare in order to engage in jihad told
Russia Today, "Terrorizing the enemy is, in fact, part of Islam."
Obama's legally
dubious Isis campaign is just a way
to continue perpetual war: The question isn’t whether this is war. It is. The
question is how long until we’re clamouring for ground troops in Iraq
Excerpt: The president also announced that he wouldn’t be
needing congressional approval for prolonged airstrikes in Iraq and Syria,
ignoring both their constitutional obligations and his … and that we’d be funneling more weapons to a
group of “moderate” fighters that hardly anyone believes is moderate nor particularly
good at fighting, including Obama. Legal scholars on the left and the right denounced
the president’s unconstitutional decision to bypass Congress and authorize
military action unilaterally by pinning it to the 13 year-old Authorization for
Use of Military Force against al-Qaida – which expelled Isis months
ago. The justice department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which already has an
egregious habit of declaring their legal interpretations of public laws
classified, may not have even bothered to put this particular tortured legal
interpretation in writing. (The
Guardian is considered left wing in the UK . ~Bob)
Excerpt: A spokesperson for the family of Steven Sotloff—the
journalist gruesomely murdered by ISIL last week—accused "so-called
moderate Syrian rebels" of helping the Islamic terrorist group to capture
Sotloff in exchange for a cash payment. (These are the folks Obama, Reid,
Boehner et al want to send arms to. Again: THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN SYRIA . ~Bob)
Excerpt: This natural law requires military action to be
morally justified given the human toll at stake. Dating all the way back to
Augustine's City of God ,
this is what's more commonly known today as "just war theory." There
are seven components to Just War Theory. Let's take a look at each and see if
military action against ISIS applies.
Excerpt: Two al Qaeda commanders are reported to have been
killed in a US airstrike in
the eastern Afghan province
of Paktika US drone
strike" that targeted "a compound near Komal village of Paktika Pakistan 's tribal agency of South
Waziristan, which is a hub for al Qaeda and other Pakistani jihadist groups.
Four Men in Two
Cities Killed in Acts of Islamic Jihad; Media, Obama, and Holder Silent
Excerpt: Ali Muhammad Brown,
29, was charged with the murder of 19-year old Brendan Tevlin on June 18th.
Brown also confessed to killing two people, Ahmed Said and Dwone
Anderson-Young, in Seattle Seattle King
County in Seattle ,
and Essex County , N.J. U.S.
actions in the Middle East .
Excerpt: Last week, Gary Cass, who drives defendchristians.org,
contacted me asking if ClashDaily.com would run his piece
titled, “I’m Islamaphobic, Are You?” I gave it a read and
quickly said, “Heck yeah”, because Cass, like Clash, believes Militant
Islam is implacable and must be stomped on like a narc at a biker party. In his
sensible screed Gary
gave three powerful points on how we must deal with violent Muslim mayhem.
Check it out:
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