Update
Finally caught up the email backlog, so posting again today.
~Bob)
General News and Comment
Must Read: Obama’s Untruth,
Inc. Let us count the ways: bald lies, lies of omission,
mythography, amnesia, redaction . . . By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: We can usefully view the Obama administration’s
chronic untruthfulness as a sort of multifaceted corporation of untruth, with
all sorts of subsidiaries. ... Remember the al-Qaeda-is-on-the-run
2012-election talking point? It was mostly a lie. The administration
deliberately released to sympathetic journalists only those documents from the
so-called Osama bin Laden trove that revealed worry and dissension among the
terrorists.
Important: Obama Hits a New Low for Leadership, With
Criticism on ISIS & Immigration Alike. By Gary Langer, ABC News
Excerpt: Barack Obama’s rating for strong leadership has
dropped to a new low in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, hammered by
criticism of his work on international crises and a stalled domestic agenda
alike. With the midterm elections looming, Americans by a 10-point margin,
52-42 percent, see his presidency more as a failure than a success. Just 38
percent now approve of Obama’s handling of international affairs, down 8
percentage points since July to a career low; 56 percent disapprove, a majority
for the first time. (A majority of Americans have figured out what I knew
in 2008. ~Bob)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we
seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by
mob rule. There is nothing democratic about mob rule. It means that some
people's votes are to be overruled by other people's disruptions, harassments
and threats.
White House knew of
destroyed emails two months before Congress. By Rick Moran
Excerpt Congressional investigators have released tesimony
showing that an attorney for the IRS told the Treasury Department counsel of
the destroyed emails, who then passed the information on to the White House.
The conversations took place in April - two months before the IRS told Congress
of the destruction of evidence. ("You're clear, Barry. We had several
'computer crashes' and immediately shredded the drives and destroyer Learners
Blackberry." ~Bob)
Hospital ER in the Windy City
Excerpt: Although the wounded man lay in a modern American
hospital, saving his life would be no different than caring for a soldier
wounded by a bomb exploding under a Humvee. That’s why the Navy is sending its
doctors, nurses and medics to Stroger Hospital , a Cook County Chicago . What does that say about us?? Semper
Fi. --Micky)
Lost opportunity:
With wars winding down, VA’s brain research failed to launch
Excerpt: On the morning of July 1, 2008, Department of
Veterans Affairs officials gathered to unveil a state-of-the-art brain scanner
they predicted would help revolutionize the understanding of traumatic brain
injury and post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans.
The timing, and location, seemed perfect. One of the first
studies would scan nearby Fort Hood soldiers before and after they deployed to war
in Iraq or Afghanistan — a
unique opportunity to study physical changes in soldiers’ brains due to combat.
Six years later, the $3.6 million machine sits unused in an out-of-the way
corner at the Olin E. Teague Veterans Medical
Center in Temple . (Another sad story, this one is
really sad, if the machine could eventually help vets with damaged brains, it'd
be worth all the millions and more. --Del. The VA has great caregivers, but too
often typical [read "awful] government bureaucrats. The folks who will be
in charge of your healthcare. Wasted $3.6 million, or as Medicare calls it,
coffee money Tuesday morning. ~Bob)
Excerpt: More than $725 million was spent by the Army on
a high-tech network for tracking supplies and expenses that failed to comply
with federal financial reporting rules meant to allow auditors to track
spending, according to an inspector general’s report
issued Wednesday.
School Choice Means
Higher Teacher Pay
Excerpt: Teachers' salaries would increase if states would
introduce school choice, according to a study from Michael Barba and Vance Ginn
for the Texas Public Policy Foundation. (yes, but lower union dues, thus lower
pay for union bosses and lower contributions for Democrats, so they will fight
it. ~Bob)
Quote From The Patriot Post
"[I]t is not by the consolidation, or concentration of
powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected. Were not
this great country already divided into states, that division must be made,
that each might do for itself what concerns itself directly, and what it can so
much better do than a distant authority." --Thomas Jefferson,
Autobiography, 1821
Africa Union troops
'raped' girls in Mogadishu ,
Somalia
Excerpt: African Union (AU) troops raped women and girls
seeking medical aid or water from their bases in Somalia 's
capital, Mogadishu ,
a rights group says. The troops had "misused" their power over women
fleeing violence and poverty, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. One Muslim girl,
aged 15, reportedly had her headscarf ripped off before being raped. 9it's their
culture. Who are we to judge another "equally valid" culture? ~Bob)
School Choice Means
Higher Teacher Pay
Excerpt: Teachers' salaries would increase if states would
introduce school choice, according to a study from Michael Barba and Vance Ginn
for the Texas Public Policy Foundation. (yes, but lower union dues, thus lower
pay for union bosses and lower contributions for Democrats, so they will fight
it. ~Bob)
Video: Harvard
Professor on Democracy and Religion
Worth viewing. ~Bob
Getting Skittish
About Scottish Independence
Excerpt: Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has
stayed out of the debate because the party he leads is so unpopular in Scotland . In
the past three general elections, the Tories have only won a single
parliamentary seat in the region and Mr. Cameron's fear is that if he campaigns
too energetically for the unionist cause it would make it easier for Alex
Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, to frame the argument as
a left-right issue and galvanize anti-Conservative support.
Beware of the UN
Takeover of American Water Supplies
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/beware-un-takeover-american-water-supplies/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/beware-un-takeover-american-water-supplies/
Excerpt: Millions of children under five die every year due
to toxic germ-infested unsafe drinking water. This
means that almost four babies a minute die from a lack of water according to
UN-Water's estimations. In the 2014
World Water Report released on the eve of World Water Day, the UN
said that 768 million people do not have adequate access to water, 2.5 billion
do not have access to improved sanitation. Among the deprived are a significant
number of people in Detroit .
It would seem that the problems of the third world are being visited upon Detroit and soon the rest
of the country. (Well, Detroit has a Third World style government... ~Bob)
How the Media Gets It
Wrong, Blaming Orthodox Jews for School-district Strife in Monsey
Excerpt: On July 1, I came to town to watch as
five Hasidim, two non-Hasidic Orthodox Jews, an African American man, and a
Haitian man sat together behind a long wooden table at the East Ramapo
Central School
District East Ramapo began to percolate from
hidden depths to the surface. (East Ramapo is
my hometown school district, I attended for 13 years at 3 different schools,
all relatively modern, all integrated as we had a diverse community...but as
I've said before there was both a spirit of academic excellence and a community
that spent time dancing, fornicating, and playing basketball. Fast forward 35
years and things have changed. --George)
It's Time to Stop
Putin's Nuclear Arms Buildup: Ukraine
isn’t the only place where the White House is letting a belligerent Russia
Excerpt: Once again, Russian President Vladimir Putin is
flexing his muscles with no serious response from President Obama. Not only did
Russia
violate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed by President
Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, it did so while
negotiating with the Obama administration over New START, a 2010 arms reduction
treaty. The White House was at best naïve to Russian duplicity; at worst it was
complicit. (OK, something really worth worrying about. And will this President
ever take note of it? --Del )
24,639,000: Record
Number of Foreign-Born Hold Jobs in U.S.
TExcerpt: he 24,639,000 foreign-born workers who held jobs
in the United States in
August was up 557,000 from July, when 24,082,000 foreign-born workers held
jobs. ...In the year from August 2013 to August 2014, the number of
foreign-born workers holding jobs in the United States climbed by
806,000, from 23,833,000 to 24,639,000....But of the 2,138,000 increase in
jobholders from August 2013 to August 2014, the 806,000 increase in
foreign-born jobholders equaled 37.7 percent of the total.
The need for a mighty
U.S.
Excerpt: Russia
invades, China bullies, Iran spins centrifuges, the Islamic State (a
terrorist threat “beyond anything that we’ve seen,” according to the defense secretary )
threatens — and Washington
slashes the military. Reason stares. Several arguments are advanced to justify
the decimation of our defense. All of them are wrong.( Mr. Romney brings up
facts & logic, isn't that just too quaint? What we need is people in power
who are ready to stop pushing ever-growing government, get their heads out of
the clouds, and accept the realities of this age. And then begin to act like
mature adults in making decisions. --Del.
"Facts and Logic? The people can't handle facts and logic. No wonder he
lost. ~Bob)
‘Yikes!’: Influential Think Tanks In The Tank For Foreign Governments
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/07/yikes-influential-think-tanks-in-the-tank-for-foreign-governments/#ixzz3Cexq5itW
Excerpt: Numerous prominent foreign policy think tanks took
millions of dollars in grants from foreign governments seeking favorable
research and connections to U.S. policymakers, raising
questions over whether the organizations should have filed under the Foreign
Agents Registration Act. The New York Times uncovered arrangements between 28 U.S. think
tanks — including the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global
Development — and 64 foreign entities worth at least $92 million.... “There was
a no-go zone when it came to criticizing the Qatari government,” Saleem Ali,
formerly a visiting fellow at the Brookings
Doha Center
in Qatar ,
told The Times. (Qatar backs
MB, per article. US working with Qatar . If it looks like a duck and
walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....Notice Hillary prominently in the
photo. Looks like citizens bought and sold.....who needs spies? --Barb. If you
are taking money to help a government hostile to the United States , you are a traitor in
my book, regardless of what the law may say. ~Bob)
Worth Reading
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24237
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24237
Excerpt: One of the reasons that I worked for many years as
an ill-remunerated doctor in a prison, and used earlier in my life to visit
countries torn by civil war, is that extreme situations help to clarify what is
important in life. I never arrived in the prison but I wondered how I would
react to incarceration, whether I would be a stoic and retreat into myself or
be someone who kicked against the traces and made trouble for the authorities
just to assert my own continuing humanity. (A very nice explanation of the most
unpleasant human truths... should be read by everyone, but most especially by
those who think every conflict can be solved by good communication and good
will. --Del )
The Pentagon Is
Giving Grenade Launchers To Campus Police
Excerpt: What could possibly go wrong here…. In 1968,
students at Columbia University staged a mass uprising other college
campuses in protesting not just the war in Vietnam , but their school’s
collaboration with the Institute for Defense Analysis, a Defense Department
affiliate that researches weapons technologies. Today, weapons produced by that
institute are used by the US
military throughout the world—and by campus police forces across the country.
The war has come home.
Race Card News
More on this: White Cop Fatally Shot by Black Felon;
No Riots
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/white_cop_fatally_shot_by_black_felon_no_riots.html#ixzz3CXQBi8xV
Excerpt: Did you hear about the cop shooting? No, I’m not
referring to the one in Ferguson ,
Missouri Rochester ,
NY Police Department at approximately 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3. Pierson, an Afghanistan vet
and father of two, was the first RPD officer killed on the job since 1959.
http://lastresistance.com/7191/black-school-girl-beat-acting-much-like-white-person/
Excerpt: What was the harassment and beating over? The girl
doing the attacking told the victim that she was acting ‘too much like a white
person.’ Oh yeah, both of the girls, the victim and attacker are both black.
The victim has lighter skin than the attacker who has been harassing the victim
for over a year. (Black on black violence is both so common and so acceptable,
it's hardly noticed by the Media or DOJ. ~Bob)
Excerpt: As the boy lay helpless on the ground, one of the
predators hovered over his prey -- kicking the bag boy’s body. Again. And
again. And again. And again.
Every single gut-wrenching kick was captured on a cell phone
video that has since gone viral.
“Hold on, they got a white dude,” the person filming said.
(Well, I'm sure Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will be there to protest! Ha! I
crack me up. ~Bob)
Six violent deaths in
24 hours in St. Louis
Excerpt: St. Louis
police have another murder investigation on their hands this Friday. This time
it’s a double homicide Friday morning in north city. The latest violence brings
the number of homicides to six in the city in less than 24 hours. So far there
have been no arrests. (Armatures! --Chicago .)
Undocumented Democrat News
Democrats:
Immigration reform will kill us in the 2014 elections
Excerpt: President Obama’s decision to delay executive
action on immigration until after the November elections was the end result of
weeks of back and forth within the Democratic Party, and fears the actions
would damage the party’s election prospects. According to an activist familiar
with details of the decision to delay the immigration announcement, Obama’s
political advisers became concerned with internal polling in the last few weeks
for a handful of states on the midterm elections. (Same reason he delayed so
much of Obamacare. Obama and party think that the voters are stupid. Until it
hits them in the face as a reality, they will vote D and who cares if they are
angry after the election, as they are now when so much of what the GOP said in
2012 turned out to be true. ~Bob)
Huge family detention
centre to open in Texas
Excerpt: The Texas Observer reports that federal officials are preparing to open
the nation’s largest family detention centre, a 2,400-bed facility that will
nearly double the current capacity to house immigrant families awaiting
deportation. ...The Observer says the centre will be run by the nation’s
largest for-profit corrections company, the Tennessee-based Corrections
Corporation of America (CCA). The company, which operates more than 60
detention centres and prisons across the country, has been mired by
controversies that include inmate abuse, falsifying official records and
aggressive lobbying tactics.
Second wave of 30,000
undocumented children expected to cross border
Excerpt: A second wave of about 30,000 unaccompanied minors
is expected to cross the U.S. Mexico border in September and October, according
to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. Right now, immigrant experts
say it's just too hot for them to cross. So far, 62,000 undocumented children
have arrived over a six-month period.
Obama Blames
‘Children’ For Hostility To His Amnesty Plans
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/07/obama-blames-children-for-hostility-to-his-amnesty-plans/#ixzz3CezYVZaq
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/07/obama-blames-children-for-hostility-to-his-amnesty-plans/#ixzz3CezYVZaq
Excerpt: The plan, he said, is to allow many new
foreign professionals and plus many existing illegals — “the millions
of people who are here, in many cases, for a decade or more” — to stay in
the United States ....
“When I take executive action, I want to make sure that it’s sustainable,” he
said. “I want to spend some time, even as we’re getting all our ducks in a row
for the executive action… to make sure that the public understands why we’re
doing this, why it’s the right thing for the American people, why it’s the
right thing for the American economy,” Obama added. (Like decree will be
permanent and cannot be revoked? Don't like the natives? Bring in the
foreigners; they're more dependent and malleable, especially if sick, indigent
and cannot speak the language to figure the lies. --Barb)
Medical staff warned:
Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest
Excerpt: In spite of the threat, several former camp workers
broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details with me
about the dangerous conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to know
about the contagious diseases and the risks the children pose to Americans. ...The
sources said workers were guarded by a security force from the BCFS, which the
Department of Health and Human Services hired to run the Lackland Camp. (Per
article, "security" at base hired by DHS and referred to themselves
as "the brown shirts." One psychiatrist was concerned that mental
health needs NOT met; reported several suicidal individuals and staff were told
they could not hospitalize; said one "child" who was suicidal and
approaching psychosis was sent to live with a family. This is criminal, folks. The
article says the psychiatrist reported the case to Child Protective Services
and quit her job. How did we miss this article? The article notes BCFS is NOT
the Baptist Family and Children's Services, but a paramilitary contractor from
DHS, calling themselves "the brown shirts" who stripped phones from
doctors and nurses and would fire them if found on them. --Barb)
Study: Net Job Growth
in NC Since 2000 Went To Immigrants
Excerpt: The net increase in the number of employed
working-age adults in North
Carolina has gone entirely to legal and illegal
immigrants since 2000, according to an analysis of government data conducted by the Center
for Immigration Studies. According to the limited immigration group, while the
“native” working age (16-65 years old) North Carolina population has increased
by 61 percent since 2000, the share of “natives” in that state’s work force has
declined.
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading
Excerpt: When President Obama addresses the nation on
Wednesday to explain his plan to defeat Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria , it is a fair bet he will not
call them the “JV team.” Nor does he seem likely to describe Iraq as “sovereign,
stable and self-reliant” with a “representative government.” And presumably he
will not assert after more than a decade of conflict that “the tide of
war is receding.” As he seeks to rally Americans behind a new military campaign
in the Middle East , Mr. Obama finds his own
past statements coming back to haunt him.
Success or Failure? By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: Those people who say that President Obama has no
clear vision and no clear strategy for dealing with the ISIS terrorists in the Middle East may be mistaken. It seems to me that he has a
very clear and very consistent strategy. And a vision behind that strategy.
First the strategy – which is to get each crisis off the front pages and off
television news programs as quickly as he can, in whatever way he can, at the
lowest political cost. Calling ISIS a junior
varsity months ago accomplished that goal.
Excerpt: In the course of an hour-long debate with Gardner in Grand
Junction , Colo.
Excerpt: It’s impossible to prove conclusively, I think,
that ISIS is “systemically” beheading
children, despite disturbing photographs and images that have surfaced online.
But the United Nations has confirmed that ISIS
is, in fact, murdering children.
Obama: ‘I Should’ve
Anticipated The Optics’ Of Golfing After Foley Beheading [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/07/obama-i-shouldve-anticipated-the-optics-of-golfing-after-foley-beheading-video/#ixzz3Cf1NloqD
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/07/obama-i-shouldve-anticipated-the-optics-of-golfing-after-foley-beheading-video/#ixzz3Cf1NloqD
.Excerpt: The president claimed it’s “always a challenge
when you’re supposed to be on vacation, because you’re followed everywhere. And
part of what I’d love is a vacation from the press –.” “I promise you, in two
and a half years I think that happens,” Todd joked. (Hard to listen to video. "It
was hard to hold back my tears." Right. Your insurance will cost less and
you can keep your insurance and doctor, too. --Barb)
The Islamic State vs. the Islamic Republic: It's a pity
somebody has to win.
Excerpt: IS have established a slave market in Mosul , where women are
sold for prices ranging from $5-25. Christian and Yezidi places of worship and
Shia mosques have been systematically vandalized or destroyed by the advancing
Islamic State forces. That the Islamic State is committing crimes against
humanity is clear. (Your US
tax dollars at work, courtesy of Regime. --Barb Let's hope for a war of
attrition. ~Bob)
Video: Top Ten Quran Verses for Understanding ISIS
Worth knowing. ~Bob
Islamic State
Executes Female Doctors and Politicians: The string of brutal executions
continues, as IS in Iraq
Excerpt: According to reports six people,
including three women, were executed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul by IS
terrorists on Saturday publicly and without trial. Witnesses
told AFP that the terrorists broke into the homes of the two
female doctors who refused to treat members of their group, as well as the home
of a female candidate that ran unsuccessfully in parliamentary elections for
the US-backed Iraqi government, shooting all three and taking their bodies with
them. The recent act follows the execution of a female doctor two
weeks ago who refused IS's orders to dress "modestly" and
cover her face with a traditional Islamic veil.
Children of the
Caliphate: Junior jihadis play with severed heads and enjoy crucifixions.
By Steve Robson
Excerpt: More disturbing images posted by ISIS
reveal youngsters revelling in the bloodbath as Muslim leaders urge young
people not to join extremists
White House official:
The Islamic State is the next administration’s problem
Excerpt: Appearing on CNN on Wednesday, the deputy
national security advisor told Wolf Blitzer that the fight against ISIS may be – like the once-defunct War on Terror – a
generational struggle. ...Blinken said that throttling the nascent Islamic
State in the crib is a project for the next occupant of the Oval Office....
“It’s going to take time, and it will probably go beyond even this
administration to get to the point of defeat.” (US regime has built this group
up, supplied it; more stonewalling to let it grow. --Barb. Yes, it's long out
of the crib...~Bob)
Quote from a blog
post attributed to an active duty Marine
But we were told to go and we went and some of us died or
were maimed both physically and emotionally….. So today, we watch Iraq devolve into chaos and know that Afghanistan
is destined for the same. We question the sacrifices made on behalf of a
country incapable of understanding the realities of war. We are told ‘thank you
for your service’ and we feel like punching that good intentioned person in the
throat so they can never utter that phrase again….. And this is where we are.
And America
doesn’t have a clue.” (Welcome to the world of the Vietnam vet. Though I like it when
folks say "Thank you for your service." I tell them, "It was a
privilege to wear the Marine Uniform." ~Bob)
Defending the Jewish
State. By Steven Aiello
Excerpt: A month later I returned to New York as an NYU undergrad. Then the long
war began. In the coming months, my fellow pro-Israel students and I faced
protests, one-sided panels, movie screenings and other events designed to
ostracize Israel .
As co-president of the Israel
club at the NYU Hillel, I tried unsuccessfully to engage our critics.
Fox News calls
offense described in Qur’an a “bizarre new charge.” By Robert Spencer,
JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: “Spreading corruption in the earth” is not a
“bizarre new charge” concocted by the Iranian regime; it is a particular
offense in Islamic law, for which penalties are delineated in the Qur’an: “The
only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive
after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or
crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be
expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in
the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom” (5:33).
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