Update
Finally blew through the back email, but a long post of very
interesting stuff today. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Hiding the Truth. By Robert A.
Hall
Worth Reading
Excerpt:
This is an important election. It is surely a referendum on Barack Obama; a
presidency that has not done America
an iota of good (quite the contrary); and on anyone holding office (up for
reelection) who voted for him and have supported his destructive policies.
Biden's son fails
drug test, is discharged from Navy
Excerpt: The younger son of Vice President Joe Biden failed
a drug test for cocaine, a month after his commissioning last year into the
Navy Reserve and was discharged.
Hunter Biden, an ensign, had been selected for commission as
a reserve officer through the Direct Commission Officer program in 2012,
according to Cmdr. Ryan Perry, a Navy spokesman.
Debate Organizers: Scott Didn't Refuse to Join Debate
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Debate-Organizers-Scott-Didnt-Refuse-to-Join-Debate-279436642.html
Excerpt: Leadership Florida Benghazi
Massachusetts
Governor: Baker (R) 48%, Coakley (D) 46%
Excerpt: The gubernatorial race in Massachusetts remains close with less than
three weeks to go until Election Day. A new Rasmussen Reports statewide
telephone survey of Likely Massachusetts Voters finds Republican Charlie Baker
picking up 48% of the vote to Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley’ 46%.
Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, while five percent (5%) are
undecided.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/390418/michelle-nunn-wont-say-if-she-voted-obama-andrew-johnson
Excerpt: Another Democratic Senate candidate has refused to
say whether she voted for President Obama: This time it was Michelle Nunn in Georgia .
Michael Dukakis
testifies in Tsarnaev friend trial
Excerpt: It was an odd moment in the trial of a friend of
the man accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing: Michael Dukakis,
the former Massachusetts
governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, testifying for the defense.
Bergdahl Investigation Is Finished But Don’t Count On
Getting The Truth. By LTC Allen West (Us Army Ret)
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/bergdahl-investigation-is-finished-but-dont-count-on-getting-the-truth?f=must_reads
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/bergdahl-investigation-is-finished-but-dont-count-on-getting-the-truth?f=must_reads
Excerpt: The truth is finally coming out about the
investigation of Army SGT Bowe Bergdahl but as usual, truth is something
progressive socialists shun. Not that there was a need for another
investigation - all they had to do was open up the classified investigative
report at the Pentagon completed back in 2010.
Confessions of an AP
Teacher: College Board’s New History Curriculum is Terrible. By M. Jane Rodgers
Excerpt: Students will not learn
all there is of significance regarding the founding of our nation without a
sufficient grounding in the people, places, events, documents, and rhetoric of
the Revolution. (I got this from a Facebook post by my daughter’s AP U.S.
History teacher. He is a true conservative, not an ideologue. He taught my
older daughter (Catherine), and she blew a 5 out of 5 on the exam. Since then,
they have famously (or infamously) redesigned the Exam and the curriculum
behind it. Now my younger daughter Grace is in the Guinea Pig Class, the first
to suffer through the changes. --Steve)
http://bearingarms.com/michigan-concealed-carry-permit-holder-helps-thwart-capture-attempted-rapist/
Excerpt: The victim was on her way home from a nearby
store—the kind that Moms Demand Action would like to ban you from carrying guns
in—and forced into a vacant home by a man who beat her severely, ripped off her
clothes, and attempted to rape her. The victim escaped and screamed for help,
at which point a concealed carry permit holder that lives nearby sprang into action, ordering the suspect out of the vacant
home at gunpoint. The suspect, Jeffery McSwain, Jr, attempted to escape on
foot but was chased down by the concealed carry permit holder and another man
and was held until police arrived. (Did you see any of this in the daily
newspapers or on the TV news? Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
19 Times the Government Withheld Documents It Didn’t Want
You to See. By Sharyl Attkisson
Excerpt: Lost and missing government records are not
isolated to one administration or political party. The list below includes 19
examples of public files that went missing, were withheld or lost and then
found. It includes the most recent example of former Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State Raymond Maxwell’s account of Benghazi documents, which The Daily
Signal revealed last
month.
People think Democrats ‘get’ them. But they are voting for
Republicans. By Aaron Blake
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/16/people-think-democrats-get-them-but-they-are-voting-for-republicans/?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1
Excerpt: Democrats are likely to lose the Senate in three
weeks -- at least according to just about everybody -- and their
brand hasn't
been worse in at least the last 30 years, according to a Washington
Post-ABC News poll released this week. And yet, through it all, they remain the
party that Americans empathize with the most. It's almost as if Democrats
are the party people would like to vote for, but they just can't right now.
The Progressive
Pajama Boy Era Is Over. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Obama’s approval ratings and MSNBC’s viewer ratings
are in a close race to the bottom of Death Valley .
It’s only a question of which set of obnoxious hipsters with a head full of bad
policy ideas and no real life experience will be fired first; the Maddow crew
or the White House staff. ... A sober analysis of the Big Billionaire Left
shows that they were good at getting Obama elected, but not much else.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: In a 2006 study the Pew Research Center discovered
that almost twice as many conservative Republicans said they were “very happy”
as leftist Democrats (28% to 47%). In a 2007 Pew study three out of four
Republicans (74%) with annual incomes under $50,000 said they were “pretty well
satisfied” with their financial condition. ... The conservatives had
substantially higher incidents of marriage, attended church more often, and
gave a higher percentage of their time and income to charities. All of these behaviors
are associated with higher levels of life satisfaction. (I have often observed
that the source of most of the evil in the world is envy. If one is
obsessed with what another has, and what he has not, one invariably
comes to hate the other. In doing so, one can develop a sense of
victimization in which the fault of one's insufficient circumstances is
entirely external. Then one can reject personal responsibility and would
look primarily for others to provide sustenance and advancement. Cordially,
Larry Greenberg)
Elizabeth Warren: The
Rich White Man’s Candidate. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: The political establishment with its clouds of
consultants, advisers and fixers rarely bothers glancing out of its enclaves of
wealth and privilege to take stock of America . Instead it taps at the virtual
pages of the paper of record on the appropriate app, nods its head at having
its prejudices confirmed and moves on. And that is why the Elizabeth Warren
political express remains convinced that a wealthy professor and government
insider who occasionally says all the approved things about Wall Street that
Obama used to say is the Democratic Party’s best hope for connecting with the
youth, women and the working class.
Holder's deputy to
resign
Excerpt: The Justice Department's second-raking official is
preparing to step down, completing an exodus of top brass from the agency,
according to a DOJ official. Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole would
become the third high-ranking member of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to
announce his departure in recent weeks.... He was most visible on issues
involving data collection and was closely involved with the
agency’s response to legalization of marijuana in some states.
Hagan Firm Keeps Stimulus Project Savings, Sends None to
Taxpayers. Hiring family-owned company seems to have violated
conflict-of-interest policy. By Don Carrington
Excerpt: JDC Manufacturing, a company co-owned by Democratic
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s husband Charles “Chip” Hagan, lowered the total cost of a
2010 stimulus-funded energy project but kept all of the savings, sending none
back to taxpayers who had funded the stimulus grant.
The company’s original application stated the total project would cost $438,627, and said JDC would contribute “leveraged funds” amounting to $187,983, or 43 percent of the total. As the project reached completion, however, JDC revised the total budget downward by $114,519 and applied all the savings to its share, keeping all the taxpayer funding.
The company’s original application stated the total project would cost $438,627, and said JDC would contribute “leveraged funds” amounting to $187,983, or 43 percent of the total. As the project reached completion, however, JDC revised the total budget downward by $114,519 and applied all the savings to its share, keeping all the taxpayer funding.
Hiding Kay Hagan
Video Raises
Parenting Questions About Tough Love and Emotional Abuse
Excerpt: In the video, the mother makes her son walk around
with books over his head. The son appears to be humiliated as the mother has
him repeat, "I'm not going to disrespect my teacher." Many people are
praising the mom's methods, but others say it is causing emotional
scars. (Those books probably weigh about one pound. Every Marine who has
completed basic training at either Parris Island or San Diego has spent a lot of time holding
their rifle over their head because of something that they or some other
recruit messed up. For me it was an M-14 that weighed slightly over nine
pounds, much more than the weight of these books this kid is being forced to
hold over his head. It not only made us stronger physically but encouraged us
to not repeat the same mistake. And instead of leaving emotional scars, it made
all of us better men. --MasterGuns)
Dunford Takes Command
of the Corps, Issues First Order To Marines
Excerpt: The 36th commandant’s first order to the Marine
Corps as he took command was a simple one: Continue to march. "Today I’m
not so much proud to be the commandant as I am to wear the cloth." (Fair
winds and following seas to General Amos. Welcome aboard to General Dunford. The
Corps is in good hands and will continue the time honored tradition of being
the best fighting force in the world. Semper Fidelis! --MasterGuns)
Excerpt: It is hard to know whether Monday was a very bad
day or a very good day for Lance Cpl. Andrew Koenig. On the one hand, he was
shot in the head. On the other, the bullet bounced off him.
Look at this idiot Marine running around Khe
Sanh Ville in 1967 with a bush cover instead of a helmet because he thinks it's
"cool." Wait, he looks familiar...
The O Stands for
Overpromise. By Jonah Goldberg, The
Goldberg File
Every president claims the mantle of confidence and
competence, and rightly so. That’s what leaders do and what we expect of them.
But Obama was really something different. From the earliest days of his
presidential run right through to today, Obama has exuded a boundless faith in
his own competence and in the ability of government to tackle any problem. We
all remember this sort of thing: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter
than my speechwriters,” Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his political director,
at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New Yorker. “I know more
about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell
you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my
political director.” Finding other examples of Obama setting the bar impossibly
high for himself are as easy to find as examples of Joe Biden putting squirrels
in his pants (I mean that figuratively, not literally, the way Joe Biden means
“literally”). The sheer arrogance of a foreign policy based on “Don’t Do Stupid
Stuff”; the notion that you could vow the seas would stop rising thanks to
your nomination and not eventually be mocked for it; his declaration
that “I actually believe my own bullsh*t”; his assurance to a congressman that
the 2010 midterms won’t turn out like they did in 1994 because “you’ve got me”;
his claim that cynicism was his only opponent, as if he personified hope like a
character from Pilgrim’s Progress; his determination not to be like Bill
Clinton but instead be a “transformative” president who would “make government cool again.”
Excerpt: A new assessment by the pest control company Orkin
has awarded Chicago , Illinois ,
the Windy City , a new title: Rat City USA Chicago topped
its lists for rat removal work. In a press release, Orkin noted that October is a prime month
for rat activity as the pests begin to root for food for the coming cold
weather and start looking for places indoors to wait out the winter. (4-legged
or 2-legged? --Barb)
Creating Liberals: Just 3 Percent of Colleges Require
Students to Take Economics
Excerpt: In its sixth annual study of curriculum at 1,098
colleges and universities in the United States , the American Council
of Trustees and Alumni reports some staggering facts about college course
requirements: Just 18 percent of schools require students to take an American
history class to graduate. Only 13 percent of schools require a foreign
language. A miniscule 3 percent of schools require students to take a course in
economics before receiving their degrees.
As disability awards
grow, so do concerns over the veracity of veterans’ PTSD claims. By Alan
Zarembo
Excerpt: As disability awards for PTSD have grown nearly
fivefold over the past 13 years, so have concerns that many veterans might be
exaggerating or lying to win benefits. Moering, a former Marine, estimates that
roughly half of the veterans he evaluates for the disorder exaggerate or
fabricate symptoms. Depending on severity, veterans with PTSD can receive up to
$3,000 a month tax-free, making the disorder the biggest contributor to the
growth of a disability system in which payments have more than doubled to
$49 billion since 2002. (Mine comes from having picked Ham and Limas two days
in a row from the C-rats case. The horror...~Bob)
Braced for Voter
Fraud in Colorado. A new election law leaves the door wide open
for abuse in hotly contested races. By John Fund
Excerpt: The law, known as House Bill 1303, makes Colorado
the only state in the country to combine two radical changes in election law:
1) abolishing the traditional polling place and having every voter mailed a
ballot and 2) establishing same-day registration, which allows someone to
appear at a government office and register and vote on the same day without
showing photo ID or any other verifiable evidence that establishes identity. If
they register online a few days before, no human being ever has to show up to
register or vote. A few keystrokes can create a voter and a “valid” ballot.
Once a ballot cast under same-day registration is mixed in with others, there
is no way to separate it out if the person who voted is later found ineligible. Other
jurisdictions that have same-day registration, such as Washington , D.C. Colorado immediately counts the vote.
Ebola and Enterovirus News
Excerpt: A passenger died on a Nigeria-to-JFK flight after a
vomiting fit Thursday — and a top
lawmaker said officials gave the corpse only a “cursory” exam before declaring
that the victim did not have Ebola.
Rep. Peter King said in a letter to Homeland Security and Customs and Border
Protection that the handling of the remains exposed serious flaws in airport
preparedness for an Ebola outbreak.
White House: New
Ebola Czar Will Report to Susan Rice. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: As a reminder, Susan Rice is the woman who went on
five Sunday talk shows to lie about a YouTube video being responsible for the
9/11 attack in Benghazi. She is also the same person who said alleged Army
deserter and Taliban sympathizer Bowe Bergdahl served with honor and
distinction.
Obama Admin Predicted
25% Ebola Threat To U.S… Obama Downplayed
Excerpt: The analysis found a nearly 25 percent “probability
of Ebola virus disease case importation” to the United States within
3 to 6 weeks. Nevertheless, President Obama falsely said on September 16 that
experts “across our government” agree that America 's Ebola vulnerability was
extremely low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also
repeatedly assured the American people that the Ebola risk was low, even after
the alarming government study was completed.
DHS Started Expediting Visa Extensions From
Ebola Countries In August
Excerpt: In short, the USCIS has been waiving
fees, expediting the immigration process, and allowing extensions of visas for
anyone coming from the three designated Ebola-stricken countries, provided that
they are in the United States
Budget Cuts and Ebola: What have the CDC and NIH actually
been spending their money on?
Excerpt: Moreover, in January, the Republican-controlled
House actually passed legislation that increased CDC spending for 2014 by $567
million — $300 million more than was requested by President Obama. It’s not
that the CDC hasn’t had money, it’s that the money has been spent on things
that have little or nothing to do with the agency’s mission of protecting
Americans from health threats.... The fund has received some $3 billion
over the past five years from a dedicated stream of mandatory funding, yet only
a little more than 6 percent of that went toward epidemiology, lab capacity, or
programs to fight infectious diseases.
(Studies) Got All the
Ebola Dollars, But Blame the GOP
Excerpt: For example, instead of studying Ebola, the National Institutes of Health were studying the
propensity of lesbians to be fat....And the Centers for Disease Control spent its budget on gun violence studies on order of the
President as part of his agenda to curtail the second
amendment....Hey, and let’s not forget all the money the CDC spent to convince people to stop smoking and now we
need tobacco to manufacture the drug to fight Ebola. (I found the headline
offensive, but the info interesting. I have no problem with Gays. I do with
ridiculous spending. ~Bob)
Hey Journalists! 15
Ways NIH and CDC Wasted Taxpayer Money
Excerpt: Many of these taxpayer-funded studies are a
combination of absurd, like spending $181,406 getting Japanese quail high on
cocaine, and downright offensive, like one project costing $544,188 studying
how to convince young girls to get the HPV vaccine. .... By way of comparison,
the combined budgets the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, FBI,
DEA and Secret Service came to nearly $1 billion less than the NIH and CDC
combined budgets. If NIH and CDC are still having trouble coming up with ways
to fund their fight against Ebola, here
is a list of 15 wasteful programs totaling $15,135,574,669.00 where
they could have saved: (Bolding mine. List includes "healthy eating"
propaganda, researchers in China, fat lesbians, drunken monkeys, gun control
and cocaine's effect on sex lives of quail among other very important issues to
the American public health systems. --Barb)
Obama Administration
Will Institute Ebola Travel Restrictions … On Our Military
Excerpt: CNN reports, “In an unprecedented move to protect U.S. troops that might be exposed to Ebola , U.S. Africa countries
currently experiencing the worst Ebola epidemic on record. White House
spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday that a travel ban is
“not something that’s not on the table at this point.” (So, CIC orders troops
to Hot Zone but if you get sick, you are SOL. Hey, you volunteered. 101st
Airborne being trained to prevent infections per retired General interviewed on
Fox today. CIC, wanting US troops faster, considering ordering up National
Guard, taking people from the homes and jobs to send to Africa versus using
those assigned for deployment but being trained --Barb)
Report: CDC Told
Nurse Who Contracted Ebola She Could Board Plane with Low-Grade Fever. By Tony
Lee
Excerpt: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reportedly
told Amber Joy Vinson, the second nurse at the Texas hospital that treated Thomas Eric
Duncan to come down with Ebola, that it was okay for her to fly even after she
told the CDC that she had a low-grade fever.
Top Doctor: CDC’s
Ebola Safety Instructions Are Wrong, Could Lead To Contamination
Excerpt: CDC’s website instructions are “unacceptable” and
could expose those who follow them to contamination, Reiner said.... “Follow
these instructions from CDC website for removing gloves & you risk
contamination,” Reiner added. “Not how to do it.”
Rep: CDC worried
travel ban over Ebola would hurt African economies
Excerpt: A Republican lawmaker claims the real reason the
Obama administration is opposing a travel ban for Ebola-stricken African countries
is that U.S.
officials are concerned about hurting their economies -- a dollars-and-cents
reason, the lawmaker says, doesn't make much sense. Rep. Tim Murphy,
R-Pa., whose House subcommittee held a high-profile
hearing Thursday on the Ebola virus, told Fox News that Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden is the one who gave him
that explanation. "He explained to me ... the concern was that these
are fledgling democracies and if we put a travel ban that that may affect their
economy and harm them," Murphy said.
Excerpt: Good for them and bad for us if BHO insists that we
keep flying in to Ebola death zones. Check this out…NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Health officials battling the
Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people in West
Africa have managed to limit its spread on the continent to five
countries – and two of them appear to have snuffed out the disease.
The developments constitute a modest success in an otherwise
bleak situation.
Excerpt: Dallas County Dallas County
Dr. Ben Carson's take
on Ebola in America
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3842571845001/dr-ben-carsons-take-on-ebola-in-america/#sp=show-clips [VIDEO]
NYC 911 dispatchers
forbidden from saying ‘Ebola’ on the radio
Excerpt: "At no point shall a dispatcher transmit over
the radio any message containing the word 'Ebola' or related terminology,"
according to the advisory, which was obtained by The Post. Dispatchers instead
must use the code letters "F/T," as in Fever/Travel, to indicate that
a 911 caller has a fever and a history of travel to West
Africa . "Engine XXX, utilize Universal Precautions — you are
responding to a Fever/Travel incident," dispatchers are now ordered to
say. A source said the directive is meant to minimize fear of a citywide
outbreak, since the emergency radio channels are closely monitored by civilian
hobbyists and members of the media.
Obama’s spectacular
incompetence turns deadly
Excerpt: President Obama, a short-term college professor and
failed community organizer who became a mostly absentee state senator and then
an all-but-invisible U.S.
senator, has Petered out. Per the Peter Principle, he has risen to his level of
incompetence — some would argue far beyond it. The president — and the
president alone — let Ebola into America . He could have made one
phone call (even on Saturday, when playing his 200th round of golf as
president) and said one sentence to protect all Americans from the usually
fatal disease: "No one from West Africa
gets into the country."
Dallas lab worker
quarantined aboard cruise ship, other passengers stranded aboard
Excerpt: The State Department did not confirm the location
or operator of the ship the ship, but Belizean news reports identified it as the cruise ship Carnival
Magic, and said it was being kept offshore after the island nation's government
learned that a U.S. hospital worker on board may have been exposed to Ebola.
..."The government of Belize reassures the public that the passenger never
set foot in Belize and while we remain in close contact with U.S. officials we
have maintained the position that when even the smallest doubt remains, we will
ensure the health and safety of the Belizean people," the government said
in a press release. (Govt. of Belize
protects its citizens better than the USA . What's in the Presidential
oath? Oh, oaths don't mean anything. No logic with these exposed folks, either.
They need a written notice, obviously, that says, "Stay home. Period."
(However, even an MD who works for NBC could not do it.) --Barb)
Shock W.H.O. report:
Ebola has 42-day incubation period, not 21 days!
http://www.naturalnews.com/047267_Ebola_outbreak_incubation_period_viral_transmission.html#ixzz3GLxmcbgG
http://www.naturalnews.com/047267_Ebola_outbreak_incubation_period_viral_transmission.html#ixzz3GLxmcbgG
Excerpt: A jaw-dropping report released by the World Health
Organization on October 14, 2014 reveals that 1 in 20 Ebola infections has an
incubation period longer than the 21 days which has been repeatedly claimed by
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.... 95% of confirmed cases have an
incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period
that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval. [1]... Underscoring the
importance of the 42-day rule, the WHO document openly states that a
42-day observation period with no new outbreaks is required before declaring
the outbreak is under control. In the WHO's own words:
Ebola Victim Thomas
Eric Duncan's 9-Day Treatment Cost Hospital Estimated $500K and He Had No
Insurance
Excerpt: The nine-day treatment of Ebola patient Thomas Eric
Duncan who died at the Texas Health Presbyterian
Hospital in Dallas , Texas
6-year-old Arizona
Excerpt: Experts aren’t sure why this wave of Enterovirus
D68 has been more pronounced than in previous years. Health officials first
took notice of this year’s wave in August, when hospitals in Kansas City and Chicago saw severe breathing illnesses
in kids in numbers they never see at that time of year. ("Experts aren't
sure." Story of the Regime. "See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no
evil." Sheryl Atkinson has been digging on "why." --Barb)
Race Card News
Excerpt: The Ferguson ,
Missouri St. Louis
Cardinals going to jeopardize some 40,000 $100 dollar tickets to see the Giants
and Cardinals play baseball. It's all well and good if the thugs want to mob
rob a QT, or even burn down the damn thing...but you don't mess with the big
money boys. The well heeled Budweiser-fueled Cardinals put out a small army of
security teams to make sure the game continued without disruption.
Black Males Are
Viciously Beating People At Random At The University Of Illinois
Excerpt: Over the last two weekends, groups of black men
have been roving the streets and beating people completely at random near
the University of Illinois
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Excerpt: I will be participating in Medicaid Health Plans of
America’s annual
conference in Washington ,
DC America ― far worse that those with
private insurance and, strikingly, no better than those with no insurance at
all.” On March 10, 2011, the Wall Street Journal published a column
by Forbes contributor and American Enterprise Institute Resident
Fellow Scott Gottlieb, MD, which concluded that “Medicaid coverage is worse
than no coverage at all.” Yet, others resist these conclusions.
Cover Oregon
Excerpt: A Klamath
Falls woman who applied for health coverage through
Cover Oregon says the insurance exchange mailed her the personal information of
other applicants.
Ann Migliaccio told The Associated Press that she received
documents last week containing the names and birth dates of two applicants from
Hillsboro . She
says the documents did not include Social Security numbers.
More than 12,000
Oregonians could owe at tax time under Cover Oregon
Excerpt: More than 12,000 people who purchased policies
through Cover Oregon could owe a combined $1.12 million at tax time because of
errors in subsidized premiums issued by the health insurance exchange. (The
Dem. governor who created this boondoggle, whose wife just admitted that her
third marriage back when she was 30 was to an immigrant for cash, is up 7
points in the polls. They deserve him. ~Bob)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Did The Most
Expensive Regulation Ever Just Arrive At The White House? By Chris
Prandoni
Excerpt: Look out! Last week, the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) just sent what could be the most expensive regulation ever to the
Office of Management and
Budget for final review. We don’t know what the ozone rule will look like, but
an EPA advisory board is pushing for standards that would, under EPA’s own
estimates, cost about $100 billion to comply with every year. Another study
by the National Association of Manufacturers estimates the rule could
cost $270 billion per year and would put millions of jobs at risk.
Is Everything Political in the Obama Administration? By Bernard
Goldberg
http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/everything-political-obama-administration/?utm_source=BernardGoldberg.com+Newsletter&utm_campaign=cb5771082b-NEWSLETTER&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c1903183b6-cb5771082b-284965241
Excerpt: With the ISIS military advancing on Baghdad, the Pentagon has issued a report outlining what Secretary of State John Kerry has called “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now.” Worldwide terrorism? No, silly. But if you said global warming, give yourself a green star.
Excerpt: With the ISIS military advancing on Baghdad, the Pentagon has issued a report outlining what Secretary of State John Kerry has called “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now.” Worldwide terrorism? No, silly. But if you said global warming, give yourself a green star.
Rule Of Law: How
Obama’s EPA Is Trying To Regulate Your Creek Beds And Ditches
Excerpt: “This proposed definition would result in millions
of additional acres of land and water coming under federal jurisdiction and
would create chaos and confusion for private citizens and landowners,” Attorney
General Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia said." Texas AG and
Republican nominee for Governor of Texas Greg Abbott wrote in August a pointed letter to the EPA and made clear that “[i]f
the proposed rule is not withdrawn and is made final, then the State of Texas
will have no choice but to challenge the rule in federal court — where it will
surely be struck down as violating federal law, exceeding the agency’s
statutory authority, and contravening the U.S. Constitution.” (If they control
water, they control life and ability to live. All rules, not laws, being
created under obfuscation by current threats/terrors. --Barb)
Feds Build Fences
In New Mexico
Excerpt: The U.S. Forest Service recently finished putting
up miles of barbed wire fencing in New
Mexico — to protect the newly-endangered meadow
jumping mouse....The fencing, enclosing over 200 acres, was installed to
protect the rodent’s water sources. New Mexico Watchdog reports that
the enclosures have aggravated local ranchers, whose cattle used to graze on
the now-restricted land.
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading
Excerpt: As for "theological reasons" for sex
slavery "according to the Sharia," these are legion—from male Muslim clerics, to female Muslim activists. Generally they need do no more
than cite the clear words of Koran 4:3, which permit Muslims to copulate with
female captives of war, or ma malakat aymanukum, "what"—not whom—"your
right hands possess."
Thousands of Yazidi
women sold as sex slaves 'for theological reasons', says Isil
Excerpt: Article in Islamic State's English-language online
magazine Dabiq not only admits selling Yazidi women into sex slavery but
justifies it according to the theological rulings of early Islam
Excerpt: The horrors of ISIS’ daily practices seem so
removed and archaic, that Kurdish activists decided to bring a reality check to
the people of London
by reenacting a scene one might commonly see in the so-called “Islamic State.”
Kerry Links ISIS
Recruiting Success to Israel
Excerpt: Israeli government officials are fuming over remarks made by Secretary of State John
Kerry Thursday which connected the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian
conflict to waves of international recruits flocking to the terrorist group
ISIS.
Bennett Blasts
Kerry's Comments Blaming Israel for
Rise of ISIS . 'Even when a British Muslim
beheads a British Christian, there will always be those who blame the Jews,'
Minister laments.
Excerpt : "These terrorists want to take over the
Middle East, from Syria to Jordan and Lebanon , and to re-establish the
[historic] Islamic caliphate." "We could either fight it or explain
it away," he continued. "The choice is in the world's hands, and it
will bear the consequences."
What Can We Learn from Last Days in Vietnam? How to avoid
wars ending badly. By James Jay Carafano
In Iraq ,
ISIS threatens the Baghdad
airport. Meanwhile, in the U.S, theatergoers get to watch people frantically
scrambling to be on the last flight out of Vietnam . Not everyone is eager to
relive America ’s
last great foreign policy disaster—even cinematically. But Rory Kennedy’s new
film, Last Days in Vietnam ,
offers a stunning history lesson as it depicts the anguish at the end of a
badly waged war. The documentary revolves around the last chaotic days before
the fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam . In 1973, under the
Paris Peace Accords, the U.S.
agreed to withdraw all its combat forces. In turn, North
Vietnam agreed to “respect the independence” of South Vietnam .
(Very smart article. --Del )
About Time: US confirms it's ditching Syria
Will they give back the arms we gave them? ~Bob. Excerpt: John
Allen, the retired Marine general in charge of coordinating the U.S.-led
coalition’s response to the Islamic State, confirmed Wednesday what Syrian
rebel commanders have complained about for months: that the United States is
ditching the old Free Syrian Army and building its own local ground force to
use primarily in the fight against the Islamist extremists. “At this point,
there is not formal coordination with the FSA,” Allen told reporters at the
State Department.
Excerpt: The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights revealed on Friday that the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has
begun training pilots on three captured fighter jets, relying on the
knowledge of Iraqi pilots who have joined the group. Rami Abdul Rahman,
director of the monitoring group, said witnesses in northern Syria
have seen the group flying the three MiG 21 or MiG 23 model jets above the
al-Jarrah airbase east of Aleppo, in the first instance of ISIS going airborne,
reports Reuters.... The sources added that the training is taking place on
the aging British BAC 167 Strikemaster training jet in the Barry M. Goldwater Air
Force Range along
the Mexican border in Arizona .
Except: 1,400
British non-Muslim children were gang-raped and brutalized by Muslims in
the British city of Rotherham, in accord with the Qur’anic allowance for the
sexual enslavement of infidel women that the
Islamic State has pointed to in order to justify its exploitation of
captive Yazidi and Christian women. But no airstrikes were called in Rotherham;
rather, British
officials there “described their nervousness about identifying the
ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others
remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.” And now four years of key and highly
incriminating files have gone missing.
Islamic State 'being
driven out of Syria
Excerpt: The Islamic State (IS) militant group has been
driven out of most of the northern Syrian town of Kobane , a Kurdish commander has told the BBC.
Baharin Kandal said IS fighters had retreated from all
areas, except for two pockets of resistance in the east.
Heroine of Kobani:
Kurdish Female Fighter Rehana 'Kills 100 Isis Jihadis' Single-handedly
Excerpt: Neither the news of Rehana’s death, nor the number
of people she has killed, can be independently verified.
Kosovo 'jihad' boy
home from Syria
Excerpt: An eight-year-old boy from Kosovo has been reunited
with his mother after his jihadist father kept him for five months in Syria . Kosovo's
Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, said the country's intelligence agency had found
and rescued Erion Abazi with help from Turkish intelligence. (Maybe they could
get our Marine back from Mexico ?
~Bob)
Did Someone Say
'Conquest'? By Burak Bekdil
Excerpt: Not learning from past mistakes, the Turks and
their part-time allies across the Atlantic have now set out to train and equip
"moderate" Islamists in Syria :
The Americans hope the "moderates" will finish off their less
moderate brethren, while the Turks hope that the new fighting will enforce bad
Sunnis instead of bad Shiites in Damascus .
Press reports say that thousands of moderates will specialize in ambush,
bombing and subversion skills at a military base in Turkey , courtesy of the American
taxpayer.
Fantastic Speech
If you have time, and want to hear what inspiring ideas
sound like, I strongly recommend this speech. Wait until you get to the part
about how to respond to Benghazi or Iran shooting
at our drones. --Del
Shia Houthi rebels
and al-Qaeda clash in south Yemen
Excerpt: Shia rebels and suspected Sunni al-Qaeda militants
have been engaged in heavy fighting in southern Yemen . Security officials and
tribal sources said at least 10 people were killed in clashes around the town
of Radaa in
Bayda province late on Tuesday. Al-Qaeda vowed to confront the rebels, known as
Houthis, after their takeover in the capital, Sanaa, last month.
Excerpt: Raising fears of renewed sectarian tensions in the
region, Saudi Arabia ’s
top court has sentenced a charismatic opposition leader to death for speaking
out against the kingdom’s ruling family. Nimr
Baqer al-Nimr, a reformist cleric, has repeatedly called for an end to corruption
and discrimination against minorities. (Our moderate allies. ~Bob)
Worth Reading : Bangladesh lowers
minimum age for marriage to accord more closely with Sharia. By Robert Spencer,
JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: Few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic
law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that
Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when
he consummated the marriage: ... Marrying young girls was not all that unusual
for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct
(cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in
April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying
to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a
bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the
holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into
controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage
and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in
the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists
were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage. (I
suggest you subscribe to their free email list. ~Bob)
Doubly damned as a
Syrian and a Christian convert: "Tarek," a refugee in Lebanon waiting to be resettled in Canada
Excerpt: But he maintains his assumed identity in Lebanon
because he has been told his father and stepbrothers are determined to kill him
for becoming a Christian. “They are searching to cut my throat,” he says
matter-of-factly. “I’ve been told they have hired someone to find me to get the
mission accomplished.”
Shi’ite imam:
Islamic State sold thousands of women to Jews in Israel. By Robert Spencer,
JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: “Even if we accept everything else – what kind of
religion allows the capturing of a Muslim woman, and on top of that, allows her
to be sold to a Jew?!” Good question!
Anyway, this repulsive little imam demonstrates that
Jew-hatred is not limited to Sunni Muslims, but is found among Shi’ites as
well. After all, they read the same Qur’an that says: “You will surely find the
most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews…”
(5:82) — a verse (along with other anti-Semitic passages in the Qur’an) that in
practice tends to make all too many Muslims into the most intense of the people
in animosity toward the Jews.
Not Destroying ISIS. By Nonie Darwish, author of The Devil We Don’t
Know; The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East and
President of FormerMuslimsUnited.org.
Excerpt: Yet the huge armies of the above four Muslim
nations are watching the ISIS slaughter and
refuse to end it. Has anyone asked why? Where are the 1.5 billion moderate
Muslims to save the reputation of Islam and fellow Muslims? Is there even a
moderate Muslim army that will not hesitate to kill ISIS
beheading their way from city to city? Will Muslim armies fight the alleged bad
Muslims? The answer is simple and I hope the West is ready for the truth. If
Muslim governments go to war against ISIS, there is a good possibility that
their armies will not kill ISIS but might
actually join them against Arab governments. This is why: (Nonie
Darwish, an ex-Muslim and daughter of a fedai (terrrorist) makes an interesting
and plausible point: Arab countries and Turkey with huge, well-armed
militaries readily use them against their own populations. But asking them to
go after ISIS risks mass defections to the
other side. Why? Jihad and shari`a is what they desire. Indeed that is what
they have been taught from day one. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Palestinians have a
special gift for ignoring their own historical failures
I had occasion to argue with someone who claims that Israel
should not exist because "the Jews stole their land." Here is the
gist of my response. Palestinians have a special gift for ignoring their own
historical failures. Had the Arabs accepted partition in 1947, Arabs would have
been the majority in what became Israel
as well as the vast majority in Judea, Samaria
and Gaza . Your
land was "stolen" because you warred against the party that accepted
the partition deal. Had you not resolved to drive the Jews into the sea, could
you, would you have been able to live in peace with a state containing a large
number of Jews? Proof: While Israel
has a 20% Arab minority enjoying full rights, virtually every last Jew has been
expelled from every Arab country. Cordially, Larry Greenberg
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tinyurl.com/n79esoh. His blog of
political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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