Update
O2 was better at rehab Friday, stayed above 93% on the
treadmill, 95% to 97% on the others. Added 10 pounds on the chest press, and
did 5 reps of 10 each on the lap pull. Friday was Bonnie & my 22nd
anniversary--we went to dinner. Having lost her first husband just before the
20th, she was afraid I wouldn't make 20 either. In May, everyone thought we
wouldn't make 22, but here I am. You could have made money when I married her
betting it would last more than a year. I tell people, if you are going to bet
against Bob Hall--ask for odds. ~Bob
Celebrating our 22nd Anniversary
General News and Comment
The Insiders: Voters
blame Obama for country being off-track. By Ed Rogers
Excerpt: According to the latest George Washington
University Battleground poll, 70 percent of voters think that things in the United States
have gotten off on the wrong track and that the country is headed in the wrong
direction. It stands to reason that as a result, many Americans will vote
against the Democrats. Fair or not, the way to vote against the status quo is
to vote against the president’s party.
Obama has never understood our enemies. By Jennifer Rubin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/09/05/obama-has-never-understood-our-enemies/
Excerpt: If the current cease-fire holds in Ukraine , we will be one step closer to the
dismemberment of Ukraine
and a humiliation for the West. The
Post reports: “The measures appeared, at least initially, to be a first
step toward a peace plan envisioned by Russian President Vladimir Putin that
would effectively freeze the conflict in a manner similar to other long-running
territorial disputes in former Soviet republics. The Kremlin has used those
other conflicts, in Moldova
and Georgia ,
to exert pressure on their governments and to complicate their chances of
joining the NATO defense alliance.”
Excerpt: Regardless, the patient experiences described in
the report “revealed that access barriers adversely affected the quality of
primary and specialty care” at the VA healthcare facility in Phoenix where the
problems originally were detected. The inspector general was able to identify
40 patients who died while on the facility’s electronic waiting list from April
2013 through April 2014. Griffin concluded
that inappropriate scheduling practices at VA medicals facilities are “a nationwide
systemic problem.” (This must be a Common Core puzzle. The IG identified 40
patients who died while waiting for an appointment, but because the
whistleblower could not provide a list of names of 40 patients, the IG report
came to the conclusion that he could not substantiate that the VA's (lack of)
care contributed to the death of 40 veterans. --Barb. All I can say is that the
care I have received at the Madison ,
WI VA hospital through my lung
transplant and subsequent complications has been superb. I wouldn't be alive
without them. ~Bob)
Important: New 'loser pays' standard could curb
abusive lawsuits
Excerpt: In 2009, the notorious securities litigation firm
Robbins Geller brought a shareholder lawsuit against the Boeing Co.,
accusing its management of illegal misrepresentations based on the word of a
confidential witness inside the company. It was the sort of case that routinely
costs companies millions of dollars in cash and stock value. Most companies
settle such cases to make them go away, but Boeing did not. Its attorneys
eventually deposed the confidential witness, only to discover that he was
actually just a contractor in a job unrelated to the case who hadn't even
worked for Boeing until months after the period in question. The witness
“repudiated each of the allegations” in the Robbins Geller complaint, according
to court papers.
Belgium ordered to
pay accused bomb plotter extradited to U.S.
Excerpt: The European Court of Human Rights ruled on
Thursday that European states should not extradite people to face the rest of
their lives behind bars without the possibility of release, ordering Belgium to pay a settlement to a Tunisian man it
had deported to the United
States . (Ah, European Progressives--always
on the side of murderers. ~Bob)
Pardon?
A Head Talking Turkey Before Thanksgiving? By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
So how is it that the direction of our grand staunch land, of the bald eagle,
momentarily rests with a blinking, nervous, confused and indecisive bird -
who talks willpower in one sentence, and turkey in the next?
Dramatic 911 Call: Arizona Woman Shoots
Intruder Before Cops Arrive
Excerpt: Her late husband had taught her how to shoot, so
she got her gun and went to hide in the bathroom. The burglar eventually gained
entry through her back door and was shot after he attacked the woman.
Excerpt: T.J. Guerrero has gained international attention
this week because of his lemonade stand. • Since a story about a neighbor's
efforts to shut down the 12-year-old boy's venture ran in Sunday's Tampa
Bay Times, T.J. has been given donations, treated to a limo ride and featured
in news reports from New York to Europe . He also has given back by donating some of the
money to a local animal shelter. The neighbor, Doug Wilkey, hasn't fared as
well. He is now under investigation by the city for — of all things —
potentially running a business out of his home without a license.
Grammar Infographic
Shows Why Writing Skills Matter
Better writers get paid more. Share with yur kids. ~Bob
Ohio Judges Declare
Themselves a ‘Special Class’, Exempt from Carry Rules
http://www.ammoland.com/2014/09/ohio-judges-declare-themselves-a-special-class-exempt-from-carry-rules/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&utm_campaign=9056d3b7ad-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-9056d3b7ad-7164445#axzz3CYUyzTQF
http://www.ammoland.com/2014/09/ohio-judges-declare-themselves-a-special-class-exempt-from-carry-rules/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&utm_campaign=9056d3b7ad-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-9056d3b7ad-7164445#axzz3CYUyzTQF
Excerpt: “Judges of our 4th District Court of Appeals, which
covers fourteen counties in southeastern OH, are, by their own one-sided
‘proclamation,’ are licensing themselves to carry concealed handguns, both
while sitting on the bench and at all other times. They are not extending that
special privilege to anyone else! This ‘proclamation‘ altogether bypasses the
legal requirements, including training and proficiency, that we peons are
required to obey in order to acquire state-issued concealed carry permits.
Man Saves Friends by
Fighting Off 5 Attackers With His Firearm
Excerpt: Upon leaving work the CCW permit holder and his
friends were approached by the gang and were held at gunpoint in an attempt to
rob them. The CCW holder didn’t care to much for that notion and in response
produced his sidearm and fired upon the thugs. Shooting and killing one before
the rest could flee like the cowards they are. Thanks to the identification of
the dead robber, a 15 year old with a long arrest record despite his age, his 5
cohorts were arrested shortly after. (Too bad this "child" wasn't
parented well. A 15-year-old with a gun can kill you as dead as a 30-year-old.
~Bob)
Near a Turkish
school, 10,000 dead Armenians are still ignored. By Chris Bohjalian
Excerpt: I was furious because that ravine is the final
resting place for an
estimated 10,000 of my ancestors, the Armenians of Chunkush, which is the
village beside Yenikoy. In the summer of 1915, Turkish gendarmes and a Kurdish
killing party marched virtually all of the Armenians who lived in the area to
the ravine. There
they shot or bayoneted them and tossed the corpses into the crevasse. (Genocide
is apparently okay, because slaughtering infidels is part of their
equally-valid culture. ~Bob)
Movie- Last Days in Viet Nam
Remarkable interview of the filmmaker who has done an
apparently outstanding job on a documentary of the last days in Saigon , the rushed and panicked evacuations, and the
people left behind. I have always felt Jon Stewart is basically an honest guy,
yes, a Liberal bent, but no Leftist anti-US fanatic. It was great of him to
have this woman on his show to push the film. --Del
Is Obama
presidentially-incapacitated by narcissistic rage?
Excerpt: For those perplexed by Barack Obama's often
inexplicable behavior, wonder no more. An individual with narcissistic personality disorder exhibits extreme
self-importance, has a constant need for attention and admiration, is secretive
and controlling, cannot empathize with others, and has a heightened sensitivity
to criticism. To get the attention he craves, a narcissist may try to create
crises or diversions that return the focus to him. The narcissist feels
entitled, that the world owes him, regardless of whether he makes a
contribution. (NPD has long been my guess, but I am NOT qualified to diagnose,
and diagnosing long distance is problematical even for psychologists. ~Bob)
Fox News, Enemy of State: The Obama administration’s
curious cable jihad. By Kevin D. Williamson
Excerpt: Marie Harf, whose career has alternated between
government jobs and campaign jobs, is the deputy spokesman for the State
Department, and if her
recent communications are any indication, the face of the most acute
foreign-policy crisis facing these United States is Bill O’Reilly’s — an
admittedly self-satisfied visage, to be sure, out of which pours a stream of
apparently inexhaustible glibness. But he’s never beheaded anybody, so far as I
know.
Mr. O’Reilly became an enemy of State when he conducted an
interview with Fox News reporter James Rosen, who had some mildly unflattering
things to say about Ms. Harf’s superior, Jen Psaki, the witless off-brand Pippi
Longstocking who is the current media face of the American diplomatic
project. (It makes sense, they have to have "bad guys" to hate
and to attack endlessly, viciously, to show how they are the good, the
righteous, and everyone needs to go along with them. Makes perfect sense. --Del )
Race Card News
Holder Expands Ferguson Witch-Hunt. By Matthew
Vadum
Excerpt: Despite the continuing absence of any evidence
whatsoever that race was a factor in the police shooting of Michael Brown, the
Department of Justice will be conducting a race-baiting witch-hunt aimed at the
entire police force in Ferguson ,
Mo. , Attorney General Eric Holder
announced yesterday. The new investigation is nothing more than a
taxpayer-funded Democratic Party voter registration drive disguised as a civil
rights investigation.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Analyst Estimates
Obamacare Will Increase Number of Uninsured
Excerpt: By the end of the decade, the United States '
health system will be in worse shape than it was before the Affordable Care
Act, contends Michael Ramlet of the research firm Paragon Insights. While the
law was touted as providing affordable health coverage for the uninsured,
Ramlet projects the number of uninsured will actually increase, as will health
care premium costs. When President Obama marketed his health care law, he said
it would lower premiums for families by $2,500. But according to
PricewaterhouseCoopers, insurance premiums will likely increase by an average
of 7.5 percent in 2015. In fact, in research conducted with Stephen Parente, a
health finance professor at the University
of Minnesota , Ramlet
estimates the president's signature health care law will do the opposite of
what was promised:
Healthcare.gov Hacked in July. By Christine Rousselle
Excerpt: Comforting: Yesterday, reports came out detailing
how HealthCare.gov was apparently hacked in July, and government officials were
unaware of the security breach until last week.
Trainwreck, Continued: Eight New Pieces of Bad Obamacare
News. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: Who's up for the latest batch of bad
Obamacare-related news? (1) Consumers brace for the second full year of
Obamacare implementation, as the average individual market premium hike clocks
in at
eight percent -- with some rates spiking by as much as 30
percent.
Undocumented Democrat News
More Senate Democrats
urge Obama to delay immigration order
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/obama-immigration-order-110624.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/obama-immigration-order-110624.html
Excerpt: More top Democrats are pressuring President Barack
Obama to slow down on immigration reform, further diminishing the chances that
he’ll take sweeping administrative action before Election Day. Sen. Bill Nelson
(D-Fla.) wants Obama to wait until after November. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.)
said he has “concerns about executive action.” Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who
caucuses with Democrats, said it would be a “mistake” for the president to do
anything significant.
As I predicted: Obama to reportedly delay any
executive action on immigration until after elections
Excerpt: President Obama has abandoned his pledge to reform U.S.
immigration policy by the end of summer and will instead wait until after the
November congressional elections, The Associated Press reports Saturday. (It
wasn't a hard prediction. On this issue, as so many (late term abortion,
Keystone pipeline, Obamacare, etc.), the voters are strongly against him, and
he doesn't want to hurt Democrats in November. He will be back. ~Bob)
Well, of course he did: After immigration delay,
Obama hits links
Excerpt: President Obama spent Saturday afternoon golfing
with White House staffers, hours after he delayed executive action on
immigration until after the midterm election.
Border Crisis Poll:
64% of Hispanics Back Deportations
Excerpt: The numbers are not all that different among
Hispanics. Only 22% want to give the children amnesty. A full 64% want the
children deported. Of that 64%, 28% want them deported immediately; 36%
want them deported unless their home country is deemed unsafe.
That puts Hispanics almost perfectly in line with the rest
of country. (Amnesty and unfettered illegal immigration mean fewer jobs and
lower wages for Americans of Hispanic and African ancestry. But they will vote
Democrat anyway, because the media has convinced them Democrats are for
"the little people." Democrats ARE for the little people:
leprechauns, fairies, brownies and other mythical creatures. ~Bob)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
'Global warming has
been on pause for 19 years': Study reveals Earth's temperature has remained
almost CONSTANT since 1995
Excerpt: Since the turn of the century, there has been
little increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s surface, new research
claims. Previous studies claimed this hiatus has lasted for 15 years, but new
research believes the temperature has remained almost constant since 1995.
Link for polar ice
meltdown myth
Check this link for a really neat video on Global Warming
and the latest facts on what's happening. --Del
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading : Benghazi - What Was The President's Aim? By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
For the rest of the evening and while drifting off to sleep the
nonsensical American non-response - the unprecedented act of abandoning
combatants under fire - nagged (as it has for two years).
Interesting: World War III is Here and Now!
Robert D. Jones, LTC, USAF (Ret)
http://veteransvent.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/world-war-iii-is-here-and-now/
Excerpt: For the record – I am thoroughly angry. Because of
the actions of this administration (among others) all Americans are at risk,
regardless of where we are in the world. The difference is that the amount of
risk which increases exponentially as we approach Muslim held lands. ... This
paper addresses the lessons we should have learned about recognizing and
properly prosecuting a war to a logical conclusion. It also speaks to why
failing to apply these lessons (as we are now doing) will get more Americans
killed, some right here in the homeland.
The Collapse of
Obama’s Foreign Policy: When even Al Franken is goading you for
having no strategy, your approach has failed. By Rich Lowry
Excerpt: President Barack Obama’s stated goal in the fight
against the Islamic State, aka ISIS, is to reduce it to a “manageable problem.”
What this means, he hasn’t spelled out in great specificity. Presumably fewer
beheadings. A slower pace of Western recruiting. Fewer genocidal threats
against embattled minorities. A downgrading of the caliphate to a mini state,
or merely a large swath of territory in Syria
and Iraq .
In Iraq ,
fight against Islamic State has produced some unlikely facts on the ground.
By Karen DeYoung
Excerpt: The urgent fight to keep Islamic State forces from
taking over more of Iraq
has led the Obama administration to tolerate, and in some cases even approve,
things it once would have loudly protested. When Iraqi Shiite militias, backed
by Iran and long branded
illegal by the administration, retook the town of Amerli from the Sunni
Muslim militants last week, U.S.
officials breathed a sigh of relief.
Islamic State Wins
Support from Jordanian Pol, Shocks Saudis
Excerpt: Ruthless violence from the terrorist organization
Islamic State (IS, or ISIS ) is dividing people
in the Muslim world, two recent clips from Middle East Media Research Institute
(MEMRI) show. In Jordan, politician Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi, a
Palestinian, vigorously defended the group during a television
appearance posted online Aug. 31. Islamic State ideology "stems from the
Quran and the Sunna," he said, according to MEMRI's translation.
Excerpt: There is growing concern in America not only about ISIS
carrying out an attack on our soil, but about Americans aidingthe enemy in
their hometowns or by fighting overseas. Multiple reports have popped up over
the past few weeks about the far reach ISIS
has into American communities and the success they've had with recruitment.
(“Eid also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans
to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our
democracy. --Barack Obama)
A Foreign Legion
for Losers: Many of the Westerners flocking to the Islamic
State are middle-class misfits for whom jihad is a radical pose. By Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: Rather, my point is that to a considerable extent,
the Islamic State — and groups like it — is a modern Foreign Legion for losers.
When discussing people who openly boast of rape, murder, and torture, “loser”
is hardly too harsh. But invective is not my intent when I call them losers.
These men — and a few women, too — are losers in a more significant sense. They
are losers at Western civilization.
New York Times: A
survivor's retelling of an ISIS massacre
Two things about the article. First, as soon as the word
came that the ISIS guys were about to hit
them, all the officers disappeared in the fastest vehicles available. These are
guys who have been through all the years of training and retraining our
instructors did for the Iraqi Army, and while equipped with tanks, armored
vehicles, artillery, possible air support, and troops outnumbering the oncoming
ISIS fighters, they dropped everything and ran
like chickens from a big fox. No balls at all, no commitment to their nation,
only concerned with their own precious skins. Under Saddam such guys would
be shot by the MP forces, but this Iraqi government doesn't have the people or
perhaps the will to do such things. So naturally the enlisted guys looked
around and figured "what are we waiting for?" and bugged out or
surrendered without firing a shot. Thinking that after all, the other guys are
Muslims too, how bad can it be? Then all the Shia found out how bad it could
be, as they were all tied up, forced to lie down, and shot from close range.
What happened to the Sunni soldiers is not clear, but I wonder if they were
pressed into service for ISIS . So this one guy
gets lucky, the shot that was supposed to kill him misses but he is splattered
with blood from the guys next to him, so they think he's dead and leave him. He
waits until it's dark, gets up, and flees. And days later, manages to get home.
Here's the payoff. A military officer comes to his house and gives him half a
month's pay, and apparently he's somehow excused from the army. And when asked,
he says the last thing he wants to do is ever get involved with the army again.
How would most of us feel if we had seen all our comrades murdered, we only
escaped by accident, and the murderers are still in the country and trying to
take over? Personally I would be screaming mad and eager to get my hands on a
weapon and go after them, burning eager to blow away every one I could get in
my sights. I would be anxious to save my country and its people from these
murderers. But that's now how things are in that culture, very few of them
think of their country as something to really love and defend, and their
priorities a usually focused on me, myself, and I. The religious nuts were
willing to plant bombs and ambush American "invading infidels", but
that was apparently different than reacting to actual bloodthirsty other.
Muslims coming in to take over. Some people have theorized that for some
cultures democracy really can't go anywhere, what works are strong man governments.
I am no expert, but I have to admit that maybe there's something to that.
Meantime, the Kurds, who actually do love and want to protect their people and
lands, are doing a good job fighting, and with our air support, are pushing ISIS back. If we really tear up ISIS enough, then I
predict the remaining Iraqi Army will slowly grow a pair and go after them, and
when ISIS really breaks down and starts to
run, then the real killing will start. Hopefully no survivors. --Del. Note: Del is a
Marine combat vet of Vietnam .
~Bob)
Excerpt: President Obama’s account of the rise of the
Islamic State, says CharlesKrauthammer, is “a Paulism” — referring to
Kentucky ’s
senator Rand Paul, a likely 2016 presidential contender for the Republicans.
“[Obama] always likes — this is a Paulism — he likes to say that if
there’s terrorism, ultimately the cause is the United
States ’ meddling, as if our meddling in Syria is the cause of the rise of ISIS . That is simply ridiculously wrong, and it’s
hard to take seriously somebody who can say something like that.”
Excerpt: The US
military is certain that Shabaab emir Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in a
targeted airstrike in southern Somalia
that took place earlier this week. "We have confirmed that Ahmed Godane,
the co-founder of al-Shabaab, has been killed," Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said in a
statement that was released today.
'Nigerian Muslim
Convert' Held by Police After North London
Beheading
Excerpt: The man believed to have 'decapitated' 82-year-old
Palmira Silva in a suburban garden in North London has been informally identified
by locals as a 25-year old recent 'Muslim convert', with one neighbour saying:
"He was a black man young about 25 to 30 wearing all black, black t-shirt
and jeans, about 5'10" and looked like he went to the gym". (Police
do not believe it was terror related, which must be a comfort to Palmira . ~Bob)
Excerpt: Israel said
on Thursday it had prevented local media from reporting that slain U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff was also an
Israeli citizen, in a bid to reduce the risk to him after he was seized by
Islamist insurgents in Syria last
year. Islamic State, a militant group which has overrun large areas of Syria and Iraq, released a
video this week of Sotloff being beheaded, calling the execution retaliation
for U.S.
air strikes.
State Dept.: Rejecting Islam Is Capital Offense in Many
Muslim Countries. By Brittany M. Hughes
Excerpt: According to the State Department’s most recent
country reports on religious freedom, at least six predominantly Muslim
countries consider “apostasy” from Islam a crime punishable by death. (Let's
not be Islamophobic here. Killing people who leave Islam is part of their
culture, like stoning teen rape victims, hanging gays or marrying 9-year-olds.
Remember the progressive mantra: "all cultures are equally valid."
Who are we to judge? ~Bob)
Excerpt: Fr. Longenecker here misses my point. His earlier
piece was entitled, “Does the Quran Command Beheading?.” In it, he examined
Qur’an 8:12, determined (correctly) that it doesn’t command beheading, and thus
concludes that the Qur’an doesn’t command beheading. But in that piece, he
doesn’t even mention 47:4, which does command beheading, not
according to me, but to classic and mainstream Qur’anic commentators, two of whom I quoted in my earlier piece. That was why I
said his piece was extraordinarily misleading: it claimed that the Qur’an
didn’t command beheading while not even mentioning the verse that jihadists
actually use to justify beheading. That’s misleading.
Police throw book at
Shariah vigilantes
Excerpt: Charges of unlawful assembly and use of uniform in
public were brought against 11 members of a group trying to enforce aspects of
strict Islamic Sharia law in the North Rhine-Westphalia city, a spokeswoman for
the Wuppertal
police told The Local. Officers stopped the 11-man group on the street on
Wednesday. Some were wearing orange vests bearing the words 'Shariah Police',
in violation of federal German law, the spokeswoman said.
John Kerry Explains
the Bible is Pro-Muslim and Against Global Warming
Excerpt: I know what you're thinking... "Um, what is
with that title!" But listen, our Secretary of State said something incredibly
stupid (I know, I know – what else is new?). On Wednesday, John
Kerry basically said that Scripture commands us to protect Muslims from Climate Change. I kid you not. (Thank
God he did not become president. --JB. John Kerry, famous theologian and expert
climatologist, turns out to also be deeply concerned with our special
responsibility to protect Muslim countries. Who knew? I don't know what he
was smoking just before that meeting (or shooting up), but he really, really
needs to dial back on his hallucinogen intake. That kind of statement
leaves me utterly torn between hysterical laughter and hysterical
weeping. This guy is our Secretary of State, for heaven's sake! [On
the positive side for someone, Hillary is looking better all the time.] Heaven
help us. We have 2 1/2 more years of him along with Obama. That's a pair
no Full House can beat. Add in Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid,
and you start wondering if we are in the Final Days. --Del. Start wondering?
See: http://tiny.cc/g02s4 ~Bob)
Proof! FBI Says
Americans More Dangerous Than Isis Invasion.
By Mikael Thalen
Excerpt: Exclusive photographs provided to Infowars from a local
business owner show an FBI power point presentation placing “homegrown” groups
at the top of the agency’s terror watch list. (Of course, "Homegrown"
doesn't include American jihadist like the Fort
Hood shooter, the Baltimore
shooters or the Boston
marathon bombers. Can't mention Muslims. ~Bob)
Watch: This Former
Muslim Just Sent Obama A Wake Up Call On ISIS
That Is An Absolute Must-See
Excerpt: Brother Rachid, a former Muslim and the son of a
Moroccan imam, has posted a video called “A Message to President Obama From a
Former Muslim” in which he attempts to give the President a crash course in
Islamic studies. He begins by telling the president that he is wrong when he
said that ISIL speaks for no religion.
Excerpt: In Rotherham ,
England , 1400
young girls were routinely raped over more than a decade while authorities
turned a blind eye. Why did they turn a blind eye? The authorities were so
concerned with multiculturalism they could not bring themselves to do anything
about a systemic and widespread culture of rape gangs in the area. The gangs
were, if you read most press accounts, Pakistani men. In fact, there were
Bangladeshi men, Afghani men, and others involved. But you will not find many
references of the word “muslim” except in pieces warning about a possible
backlash against the muslim community. (Let's not be Islamophobic here.
Raping young infidel girls is part of their culture, like stoning teen rape
victims, executing apostates, hanging gays or marrying 9-year-olds. Remember
the progressive mantra: "all cultures are equally valid." Who are we
to judge? ~Bob)
Bret Baier Special:
’13 Hours In Benghazi ’
http://patdollard.com/2014/09/bret-baier-special-13-hours-in-benghazi/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://patdollard.com/2014/09/bret-baier-special-13-hours-in-benghazi/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Excerpt: “Fox News Reporting: 13 Hours in Benghazi ” is based off the new book to be
released next week, “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In
Benghazi” by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team.
Important: A Critical Continent Under Siege. By
Walter Russell Mead
http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/09/06/a-critical-continent-under-siege/
Excerpt: Reports are emerging that Boko Haram has taken a
town on the outskirts of Maidiguri ,
Nigeria ’s
largest city in its north, and is girding for an attack on the city. The Financial
Times:
Counter terrorism and Nigeria experts tracking the
insurgency said this week that urgent action is needed to defend the city, and
warned that its fall would “be a symbolic and strategic victory unparalleled so
far in the conflict”. [...] Confusion surrounds the status of Bama, a town with
a population of about 250,000 situated 75km east of Maiduguri . Nigerian defence officials have
denied that it has fallen under Boko Haram control, but local politicians and
officials described scenes of carnage in the town after an assault that
precipitated the flight of thousands of residents and also, after reportedly
heavy fighting, the soldiers garrisoned there.
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