Update
They are still looking for Kevin Hall
In my last post, I reported: Tuesday, Bonnie was out, and the phone rang. Guy asked for her. Then he
said they had legal papers to serve on her, would someone be home for the next
30 minutes? Gulp. "Yes," I said, calculating the time to lock and
load. He also gave me a phone number and a docket number that she needed to
call immediately. The server never showed up. When Bonnie got home a few hours
later, she called and gave them her name and the number. "I don't know a
Kevin Hall," she said. "My husband is Robert. All his Hall relatives
live on the east coast (forgetting Cousin Bruce in Vegas), and none is named
Kevin." Apparently a Kevin Hall said that a Bonnie Hall could sign for
legal papers for him, and they assumed it was her.
On Thursday morning the phone rang. "Mr. Hall?"
"Yes." A process company drone assured me that a server was on the
way with legal papers to serve me. "I think you've got the wrong
guy." "This is Kevin Hall, right?" "No, I'm Robert Hall.
There is no Kevin here. No Kevin Hall has ever lived here. There is no Kevin
Hall in my family, going back to my 8th Great Grandfather, John Hall, who
immigrated to Massachusetts
in 1623." "Is there a Bonnie Hall there?" "Yes, my
wife." "Well, the papers are for her brother, Kevin Hall."
"My wife doesn't have a brother. if anyone in your office had the brains
of a feeble-minded turnip, you would figure out that if she had a brother, he
would be named Beinart, not her married name of Hall." "Well, the server
will deliver the papers to you." "Fine, I'll throw them out."
"That will affect Kevin." At this point, I lost the sweet disposition
and mild temperament for which I'm justly renowned nationwide, and suggested
that, since I didn't know Kevin, he could go perform an anatomically difficult
act. If they show up, I'm going to tell them that that Kevin knew too much, so
I shot the SOB last week and buried him in the basement. But don't tell anyone.
~Bob
General News and Comment
Worth Reading : Obama’s Ideal Revolution: America ’s current revolutionary inspiration
seems to derive more from Robespierre than Madison
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389895/obamas-ideal-revolution-victor-davis-hanson
Excerpt: A quite different French version sought equality of
result. French firebrands saw laws less as absolute, but instead as useful to
the degree that they contributed to supposed social justice and coerced
redistribution. They ended up not with a Bill of Rights and separation of
powers, but instead with mass executions and Napoleonic tyranny. Unfortunately,
the Obama administration is following more the French model than the American.
(Hanson, a classical historian, is always worth reading. ~Bob)
Very Funny: Speaking Up for Poultry: If eating eggs is
just like infanticide, why leap over the whole actual
infanticide part of modern society? By James Lileks
Excerpt: You don’t want to criticize anyone who gets
emotionally distraught by the sight of scrambled eggs. It would seem to be its
own punishment. It you are compelled to interrupt strangers’ meals and cry
literally over spilled milk, life is hard in a way most of us will never
understand. Misery and evil are everywhere, and it’s all you can do to keep
from chaining yourself to the cooler where the eggs are stored and hissing “How
would you like it if someone ate your eggs?” at every woman who tried to get a
dozen jumbos. You could say the speaker has father issues, but only if her dad
was Foghorn Leghorn.
Please share: President
Obama Slams Republican ‘Party Of Billionaires’ While At Billionaire’s House.
By Emily Zanotti
Excerpt: Last night, after two fundraisers in New York,
Barack Obama settled down for a quiet, up-to-$32,000-per-plate dinner at the
home of (I am not making this up) a billionaire property tycoon named (still
not making this up) Rich Richman, but only after he sent a massive
fundraising email to potential Democratic donors, labeling
the Republicans as the "party of billionaires."
Excerpt: China accused
the United States on
Thursday of faking facts, after the head of the FBI said that Chinese hacking
likely cost the U.S. economy billions
of dollars every year. Charges over hacking and internet spying have increased
tension between the two countries. (what they actually said was, "If
you like your websites un-hacked, you can keep them un-hacked. Period. ~Bob)
Embattled House
Democrats Turn Against Nancy Pelosi
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/embattled-house-democrats-turn-against-nancy-pelosi-20141008
Excerpt: House Republicans have surprising new company in
attacking Nancy Pelosi: her fellow House Democrats. Three Democrats running in
GOP-leaning House districts have used late-stage television ads in a bid to
distance themselves from the liberal leader of Democrats' House caucus—the same
caucus they're fighting to join in 2015. (But if elected will vote for her for
Speaker. Bet on it. ~Bob)
Four-Year-Old Girl
Hands Out Packets Of ‘Candy’ To Daycare Mates. There Was Just One Problem.
Excerpt: A 4-year-old Delaware
girl found packets of “candy” in her mom’s backpack and thought it would be a
great idea to take them to day care and share them with her friends. There
was just one problem: The “candy” was heroin.
Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena , Colombia
Excerpt: As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and
members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama
administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was
involved.
But new details drawn from government documents and
interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the
time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a
presidential advance-team member — yet that information was never thoroughly
investigated or publicly acknowledged.
Journalists Appalled, Shocked Obama White House Would Lie
to Them. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: When the scandal broke two years ago, the White
House denied involvement or knowing about the details of what happened. The
Post story proves otherwise and provides evidence a White House volunteer
officially checked a prostitute into his hotel room in Cartagena , Colombia
Harry Reid’s
Bodyguard Physically Attacks “Crapitalism” Author Jason Mattera
Excerpt: One of Harry Reid’s bodyguards accosted a
conservative journalist for asking a few basic questions about the Senate
Majority Leader’s wealth.
The White House is
making up entire generations now
If you like your generation, you can keep your generation.
~Bob
Labor Force Continues
to Shrink
Excerpt: The September jobs report indicated the creation of
248,000 new jobs, a positive sign for our struggling economy. But Stephen
Moore, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, offers a stunning figure
that wasn't touted in the recent jobs report: a net 100,000 workers dropped out
of the labor force entirely last month. The percentage of working-age Americans
in the U.S.
labor force (the labor force is defined as those currently working or who are
looking for work) is 3 percentage points lower today than it was in January
2009. The 62.7 percent labor force participation rate is the lowest rate the United States
has seen since 1978. What this means is that the labor force has 7.4 million
fewer workers than it would otherwise have had. America's 5.9 percent
unemployment rate, Moore explains, is largely a product of its shrinking labor
force, as many who would typically be counted as "unemployed" have
instead given up on finding work (and are, therefore, no longer part of the
unemployment rate calculation).
Supreme Court
Greenlights North Carolina
Excerpt: Late today, the United States Supreme Court dissolved a stay against North
Carolina election integrity laws, allowing those laws to go into effect for
November’s election. The vote was 7-2. North
Carolina enacted laws to revise expensive early
voting procedures and eliminated fraud-ridden same day voter registration. Another
new law required voters to actually vote in the precinct where they live. Left
wing groups challenged the new laws, advancing novel new arguments that no
change in voting could have any disparate statistical impact on blacks. That
has never been the law under the Voting Rights Act. Late today the Supreme
Court dealt a blow to these radical new legal theories about the Voting Rights
Act. (Note the 7-2 vote on this, it was not a split on political leanings. Only
the two most liberal Justices voted against the NC laws, and that's fairly
telling. And NC still does not have the most restrictive voting laws, even
though it seems like the opponents of it kept trying to say so. Now that Eric
Holder has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and forced NC to waste a lot of
time and money in court as well, finally it's over and we can proceed to just
have voting go on with some very reasonable requirements for registration and
identification. --Del )
GOP candidate in Massachusetts
Excerpt: Republican businessman and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate
Charlie Baker has managed to pull ahead of his Democratic opponent,
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, leading her in the polls 45-39,
according to a new Emerson College/WGBH poll. This marks Baker's largest lead in any poll this
year.
The Leftist Jihad Has
Nothing To Do with Liberalism. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: “We’re liberals! We’re liberals. We’re not crazy
tea-baggers,” Bill Maher protested after his televised argument with Ben
Affleck about Islam. ... But despite Maher’s protests, the majority of liberals
would agree with Affleck that criticizing Islam is racist. Liberals claim that
the Islamic State is Un-Islamic. It would be more accurate to state that
liberals are illiberal. Liberalism, even the form that was in common usage not
too long ago, is as dead as Lenin. (Note the use of "teabaggers," a
gay sexual practice as a slur against people protesting debt and the undermining
of the Constitution. Thought the left was gay-friendly? ~Bob)
Excerpt: Earlier today, I told you the Democrats needed to
throw Barack Obama under the bus to help Hillary 2016. Later in the day came
the counter-offensive from one of the Obama Administration Inspectors General.
The IG released
a report that Hillary Clinton badly mismanaged the State Department. Remember,
starting in 2009, the Obama Administration systematically began
replacing indecent independent (I blame my spell checker, which has
gotten very aggressive under OS X Yosemite) inspectors general with
partisan appointees. It appears the administration is now using them. But now a
new shot is being fired toward the Administration.
Follow the Money: Susan G. Komen. By Chris Walker
Excerpt: An in-depth examination of Komen shows
disbursements and support for causes that should concern many conservatives,
particularly its long-standing relationships with organizations that promote
and perform abortions. In 2012, the organization faced a steady stream of
criticism for their connections to Planned Parenthood. In response, Komen
announced the cessation of funding grants to Planned Parenthood, and the wrath
of abortion advocates such as NARAL was overwhelming. Unfortunately, Komen
bowed to the pressure of the abortion provider just days later and continued to
allow its affiliates to fund Planned Parenthood programs through grants.
(Breast cancer is expected to kill 39,000 to 40,000 people a year, but gets 80
times as much research funding as pulmonary fibrosis, which is believed to kill
40,000 to 45,000 people a year. the statistics are not good. PF patients often
suffer heart failure due to lack of oxygen, and that gets listed as the cause.
If, like me, they are among the lucky few to get a lung transplant, they often
die from the effects of the immune suppressant drugs, which allow pneumonia or
tumors to grow, and infection or cancer gets listed as the cause, though death
was really caused by the PF. ~Bob)
The gender card in 2016. By Jennifer Rubin
Excerpt: When you get right down to it, Hillary Clinton
would not be the inevitable Democratic nominee, let alone the pre-coronated
next president, if not for her gender. Consider a hypothetical: The Republicans
run a woman with no foreign policy messes on her record, no history of gross
mismanagement and a clear separation between herself from the failed foreign
policy of the Obama years. Maybe she even has some executive experience of her
own. There are such people of course (e.g. Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire , Condoleeza Rice, any of the four female
current GOP governors like New
Mexico ’s Susana Martinez). What then would be the
unique argument for electing Hillary Clinton?
Excerpt: According to records obtained by Judicial Watch
through FOIA requests and lawsuits, the Obamas and Bidens have spent more than
$40 million taxpayer dollars on trips since 2009 up through the president’s
most recent Palm Springs and Key Largo golf outings, which cost the
taxpayers $2,952,278 in flight expenses. The most lavish expenditure on record
was for the Obamas’ 2013 Africa trip and Honolulu vacation, which cost taxpayers $15,885,585.30 in flight expenses alone. (More than $40 million used from US
taxpayers for their own pleasure. We are subjected to disease from illegals,
our borders are unprotected, our laws are ignored and in shreds with DOJ head
telling AGs to "ignore them," banks bilked for a slush fund, voter
fraud, racial division encouraged and inflamed, our enemies succored and allowed
to grow at our expense while what remains of our missile defense supplies are
wasted as they laugh. What a legacy. Job well down. Total transformation.
--Barb)
Ebola News
Ebola Doesn't
Convince Kerry to Secure the Borders. From The
Patriot Post
The Left's aversion to securing the nation's borders is
because the influx of illegal immigrants assures the growth of a critical
Democrat constituency. Secretary of State John Kerry said that while Ebola is dire and the
efforts to stop it need to be increased, the disease is no reason to close
American borders. "We need airlines to continue to operate in West Africa and we need borders to remain open,"
Kerry insisted. Meanwhile, Marine Corps Gen. John
Kelly noted that 1.4 million people may be infected with Ebola
worldwide if the current third-world trends continue. If the disease reaches
countries like Haiti , Guatemala or Honduras ,
Kelly said, "It's literally, 'Katie bar the door,' and there will be mass
migration into the United
States . They will run away from Ebola, or if
they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States
for treatment." Of all the reasons to secure the border, Ebola is
certainly a good one. However, we note regarding pandemic
concerns that the media hype about Ebola in the U.S. is highly
sensationalized. While Americans should be concerned, let's put Ebola into
perspective: In the latest year of record for CDC epidemiology reports, there
were 53,826 deaths from influenza and pneumonia. Currently, the Enterovirus D68
is in 42 states and is killing elementary age school children now.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Excerpt: A new study by
Drs. Rena M. Conti and Peter B. Bach makes a valuable contribution to the
growing pile of evidence of the harm being done by a federal program that
Congress designed to increase poor people’s access to prescription drugs, but
which has been perverted by hospitals to pad their bottom line. The 340B program was legislated in 1992.
It gives the federal government the power to force drug-makers to offer deep
discounts on medicines dispensed to outpatients. 340B was supposed to be a win
for both poor people and taxpayers: By forcing drug-makers to discount prices,
it would reduce poor people’s costs, and, therefore, reduce the demand for
federal subsidies to safety-net facilities in those areas. In August, I discussed
evidence that the number of hospitals and other facilities taking
advantage of 340B had doubled in ten years. The new study by Conti and Bach
explain how, where, and why this is happening. The key is that, although
hospitals get the discounts, there is no effective way to ensure that the
discounts are passed on to poor people. Once the discounted drugs are inside
the hospital system, they are just added to the rest of the inventory. (You can
subscribe to Dr. Graham's blog and also to the NCPA's Daily Digest at www.ncpa.org for free. Always worth reading. The
NCPA does good work, so support them if you can. ~Bob)
How Obamacare Begets Gender Inequality. By Casey Mulligan
Excerpt: These gains in gender equality are threatened by
two provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ironically advertised as benefitting
American workers. Taken together, these policies could drive the percentage of
women working only part time back to what it was 40 years ago.
Judges hit with
'silver bullet' to kill Obamacare
http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/judges-presented-with-silver-bullet-to-kill-obamacare/?cat_orig=health
http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/judges-presented-with-silver-bullet-to-kill-obamacare/?cat_orig=health
Excerpt: The case targets the individual mandate payments,
which already were declared by the U.S. Supreme Court to be a “tax.” It argues
the legislation creating the payments started in the Senate, not the House, as
required by Article 1, Section 7, of the Constitution. "Because the issues
in this case are so important for all Americans, PLF has a responsibility to
seek review by the full D.C. Circuit, and, ultimately, by the U.S. Supreme
Court if necessary,” said PLF Principal Attorney Paul J. Beard II. “Not only is
everyone affected by Obamacare and its tax and regulatory burden, but we all
have a stake in the integrity of the Constitution and its procedural
protections for taxpayers.”
The Most Transparent
Administration Puts a Gag Order on HealthCare.gov Testing
Excerpt: But apparently, the administration is pretty
worried about what could happen. According
to this morning's Wall Street Journal the administration has
emailed insurers that it will require "all testers to acknowledge the
confidentiality of this process to access the testing environment."
Undocumented Democrat News
Why Yes, Obama
Delayed Immigration Action Because of the Election. From The Patriot Post
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest has a confession:
The White House is playing politics with immigration. "The fact is -- or I
guess, the concern is -- that had the president moved forward with
his [plan] prior to Election Day, you would have seen Republican candidates do
more to make the immigration issue central to their campaign," Earnest
said. "And in the event that they were successful in their campaign, the
concern would be that they would cite their opposition to immigration reform as
a reason for their success. That is not a storyline that the president, or that
anybody here, wanted to contribute to." Not that this delay has
stopped Obama from making a promise to do
something a central part of his own campaign, but Democrats don't want
voters making informed decisions based on actions taken by the president.
Study says 20 percent
of the U.S.
Excerpt: The study said the number of non-English speakers
rose by 2.2 million from 2010 to 2013, mostly due to an increase of Spanish,
Chinese and Arabic speakers....While the Obama administration is considering
steps to create a legal status for millions of illegal immigrants, CIS said its
study, based on Census data, raise questions about whether the U.S. is already
allowing too much legal immigration. “Allowing in over one million new legal
immigrants a year and to a lesser extent tolerating illegal immigration has
important implication[s] for preserving a common language,” said Steven
Camarota, who co-authored the report.
U.S.
Excerpt: CIS
said that’s the highest
percentage seen in 93 years —
in 1980, only about 6.2 percent of the population was born outside the United
States.....Immigrants also account for 16 percent of the adult population,
which means about one out of
every six adults living in
the U.S. was born outside the country....“The
new data makes clear that while Latin American and the Caribbean are still a
significant source of immigration, the
growth is being driven in large part by immigration from Asia, the Middle East
and Africa,” said Steven
Camarota, CIS’s director of research. (Bolding mine. Story from 09/25/14. I had heard about Little
Somalia around Detroit ;
thanks to the Ebola outbreak, learned on a scrawl on Fox News that "There
are 10,000 Liberians in North Texas ." Who knew??? Such transformation. Let
in all these foreigners, quit teaching anything related to the culture,
founding religions and traditions, history and laws of the country, and then
import more (Reportedly, US has indicated to UN they'll take 75,000
Syrians)...and voila! Transformation. Especially if the populace is, uh,
no longer there for, uh, various reasons, like civil unrest like, uh, ISIS,
well, you know, Ferguson is just the same....Imagine some folks in the
community gonna be unhappy when the free stuff for restitution runs out.....and
no disability check to buy the weed and beer. Guarantee part of the Plan.
--Barb)
Excerpt: Don’t think this is related to Obama’s Illegal Immigrants?
Fortunately 4 months ago we began to assemble the locations of the UAC’s. Overlay the maps and
you’ll find the connection. Kansas City Missouri and Chicago Illinois Polk County
Polio-Like Outbreak
Claims Fifth Life in U.S.
Excerpt: Without that answer, some question whether the
disease is being spread by the presence of tens of thousands of illegal
immigrant children from Central America admitted to the U.S. in
the past year. ...The origin could be entirely unrelated....Though the U.S.
government is keeping secret the locations of the illegal immigrant children,
there are significant numbers of them in both cities in which the current
outbreak was first identified, Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois,
according to local advocates and press reports.
2 Escaped Illegal
Immigrants Go On Multi-State Crime Spree ;
Elderly Veteran among Victims
On Wednesday morning two illegal
immigrant teenagers from Guatemala escaped from a secure detention facility in
Des Plaines, Illinois where they were being held pending their
immigration hearings. A short time later the pair committed a carjacking
in Des Plaines .
By noon the pair had traveled across the state and where at a Wal-Mart in Moline, Illinois where they committed another
carjacking this time of a 91 year old veteran who was unharmed. ... Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President
Barack Obama’s former chief-of-staff, has openly offered to have the city of Chicago
"You're Greener than Gore" News
‘Doing an IRS’? EPA
can’t find top official’s text messages
Excerpt: The EPA is
poised to “do an IRS” — similar to what the tax agency had to do with dismissed
top official Lois G. Lerner — and officially notify the National Archives that
it may have lost key electronic
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records, according to a think tank that’s suing to get text
messages under an open-records request.
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records, according to a think tank that’s suing to get text
messages under an open-records request.
Keystone Be Darned: Canada Finds Oil Route
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-08/keystone-be-darned-canada-finds-oil-route-around-obama.html
Excerpt: So you’re the Canadian oil industry and you do what
you think is a great thing by developing a mother lode of heavy crude beneath
the forests and muskeg of northern Alberta .
The plan is to send it clear to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast via a
pipeline called Keystone XL. Just a few years back, America desperately wanted that
oil.
Then one day the politics get sticky.
Keystone Pipeline:
From Alberta to...Bombay
Excerpt: When Transcanada and Conoco Phillips first drew up
the blueprints for the Keystone XL pipeline they foresaw the potential for
environmental activism. So they developed virtual fool proof 30 inch diameter
pipe, interspersed with automated pumping systems that would shut down at the
first hint of a pipeline link. Further, they proposed that the pipeline be
layered beneath at least four feet of earth along the entire length. While the
entire pipeline itself was to be 2,195 miles long, much of the pipeline has
already been laid within the U.S. ,
with just a thousand miles more added to bring that oil down to Port Arthur , Texas
3 to 4.3 Billion
Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North
Dakota and Montana
Excerpt: North Dakota and Montana have an
estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable
oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.
A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10,
shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to
the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil. (But if we developed
it, the poor and working classes would pay less for gas, home heating and good
that depend on energy to make or ship. Obama can't allow that. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Must Read: ‘Ehr Daw’ —- They’re Here. By Rabbi
Shalom Lewis
Excerpt: This is not a time for delicacy. For tiptoeing. It
is not a time to parse words nor worry about offending someone with unfiltered
vocabulary. Time is no longer a luxury we possess. Distance no longer provides
protection. We are being threatened like no time before, by an enemy obsessed
with an apocalyptic endgame that will bring only disaster. An enemy that
worships savagery. An enemy that celebrates depravity. An enemy that glorifies
the death of the young. (Brave, true words. I covered some of this in my
book, The Coming Collapse of the American Republic. Another view of
the future can be found in this short novel: The Hand of the Prophet: A Novel
of Islamic America
Worth Reading : How Not
to Run a War Coalition: The Administration blames Turkey
for the catastrophe in Syria
If you hit a pay-wall, Google te title. ~Bob. Excerpt: The
Turkey of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a popular but authoritarian neo-Islamist, has
conflicting interests. As much as the Sunni Muslim extremists in ISIS pose a threat,
the government in Ankara
also wants to topple the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, an Alawite Muslim
allied with Shiite Iran. The U.S. once also wanted to depose Assad but has
dropped this as a goal of the anti-ISIS campaign—to Turkey’s and the Gulf Arabs’
annoyance. Syrian Kurds once sided with Assad and are close to Turkey ’s Kurdish terrorist group, the PKK, which
also explains Ankara ’s
reluctance to help.
Worth Reading : The Obama Administration, Turkey ,
and Syria
Excerpt: If Kobani were to fall to IS in the face of U.S.
declarations that it is waging a war against IS militants, history would, in a
sense, be repeating itself. The United States
stood by idly and watched Saddam Hussein massacre Kurdish and Shi‘a populations
at the conclusion of the Gulf War, with long-term deleterious consequences for U.S. credibility
in the region. This is in addition to the U.S. abandonment in 1975, and again
in 1988, when Kurdish civilians were subjected to chemical attacks by Saddam’s
forces.
Also Worth Reading
Excerpt: Turning back the siege of Kobani should
primarily be the responsibility of our purported NATO “ally” Turkey , and
Obama seems to be trying to ratchet up the pressure on Erdogan’s Islamist
regime to act. Erdogan, however, is playing his usual double games:
Claiming he can’t act in the absence of a broader Syria strategy that targets the
Assad regime . . . while simultaneously warming relations
with Assad’s sponsors in Tehran; rhetorically condemning Sunni
terrorism . . . while continuing to support
the anti-Assad jihadists who collude with al-Qaeda.
ISIS Cuts Off Water
Supplies; U.S.
Excerpt: As the non-war war on ISIS/ISIL/IS/Wizard of OZ is
getting warmed up, things are happening just as critics of the Obama
Administration have predicted. The bombing runs carried out by the “coalition”
— mostly the U.S.
— have made some spectacular fireballs in the desert but appear to have done
little to slow down the purported enemy. Since bombing started, ISIS has
advanced toward Turkey ,
secured its hold on larger chunks of the Syrian border and moved within
spitting range of Baghdad .
Excerpt: In September, Obama promised the U.S. military
would “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIL. How’s that going? Despite a U.S. bombing campaign to assist Kurdish
fighters, ISIL has nearly overrun Kobani, a largely Kurdish city on Syria ’s border with Turkey .
Western Fear of Angering Turkey
Leaves Besieged Kurdish
Town
Excerpt: The fate of the Kurdish enclave in Kobani appears
to be sealed. The greater part of the formerly Kurdish-ruled area has already
fallen to the forces of Islamic State. Some 9,000 Islamic State fighters are
positioned close to the last remaining redoubt – Kobani city itself. The black
flag of the Sunni Islamists is already flying in three neighborhoods of the
city. On Monday, the Kurdish authorities ordered the evacuation of all
remaining civilians from the city.
Pentagon sees Baghdad
at risk of Islamic State takeover, expects Kobani to fall. Calls increase for U.S. ground troops in Iraq ,
Syria
Excerpt: The Pentagon on
Wednesday made the sobering prediction that more towns in Syria and Iraq will fall to
the Islamic State in the coming weeks, and that air power alone is not going to
be enough to prevent the fall of the Syrian city of Kobani near the
Turkish border. It also raised the prospect of Islamic State terrorists
marching on Baghdad,
a fear that lawmakers and former top military officials say can only be
addressed by ground forces.
Thank You, ISIS: The beheadings have
achieved what all the warnings from conservatives never could. By David Horowitz
Excerpt: Their gruesome images have entered the living rooms
and consciousness of ordinary Americans and waked them up. The barbarity of the
Islamic movement for world domination has actually been evident for decades: in
the suicide bombing of the Marine compound in Lebanon in 1982, in the bombing
of the World Trade Center in 1993, in the suicide attacks on Jews — men, women,
and children — during the second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, in the 9/11
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, and in the
beheadings perpetrated in Iraq by al-Qaeda’s Abu al-Zarqawi and the Salafist
group known as Ansar al-Islam during the Iraq War. (Some multiculturalist won't
get it until they or their families are under the knife. ~Bob)
The U.S. Veteran and Wisconsin Boy Who Went to Fight
ISIS in Syria
Excerpt: As American warplanes began airstrikes in Syria , a 28-year-old Army veteran from Wisconsin told friends he had traveled to the country to
join a Kurdish militia in the fight against ISIS .
Suicide bombings in Yemen
Excerpt: Suicide bombers targeting Yemen 's powerful Shi'ite Houthi
group and an army camp killed at least 67 people in two separate attacks on
Thursday, hours after a political crisis forced the new prime minister to step
down. At least 47 people were killed, including four children, when a suicide
bomber detonated a belt packed with explosives at a Houthi checkpoint in the
centre of the capital Sanaa where Houthi supporters were preparing to hold a
rally. (As always, the vast majority of the victims of Allah-murder are other
Muslims. ~Bob)
Biden Gaffe Fingers
Obama For Arming Jihadists? VP may have opened larger can of worms than
realized
Excerpt: Biden further implied Turkey , the UAE and other Arab countries were
supplying weapons to al-Qaida and its offshoots in Syria ,
including the al-Nusra front.... While Biden fingered Turkey and the UAE,
the vice president may have forgotten recent history, including how the Obama
administration reportedly aided Turkey, the UAE and other Arab countries in the
procurement of weapons to be shipped to the Syrian rebels....The Times reported
that from offices at “secret locations,” American intelligence officers “helped
the Arab governments shop for weapons … and have vetted rebel commanders and
groups to determine who should receive the weapons as they arrive.” (If it
walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....Barb)
Satellite Evidence
Proves Explosion in Iran
Excerpt: Satellite evidence has been received that refutes
the denials of the Iranian government regarding this
week’s mysterious explosion at the military compound in Parchin, Israel Defense reported on Wednesday.
Satellite images of the area, to the east of Tehran , prove that the explosion reported by
the Iranian media had, indeed, occurred inside the military compound in
Parchin, where, according to western intelligence agencies, trials are being
conducted on nuclear missile fuzes. Satellite images obtained by the Israel
Defense website and analyzed by specialist Ronen Solomon clearly show
damage consistent with an attack against bunkers in a central locality within
the military research complex at the Parchin military compound.
Excerpt: A United
Nations atomic agency official recently denied entry into Iran as part
of a team investigating suspected bomb research is believed to be an American
nuclear weapons expert, diplomatic sources said. The International Atomic
Energy Agency last month said Iran
denied a visa for one member of an IAEA delegation that visited Tehran on Aug. 31 to try
to advance a long-running inquiry into what the U.N. agency calls the possible
military dimensions of the country's nuclear program.
Nine killed as
al-Qaeda attacks south Yemen
Excerpt: At least nine people have been killed in an attack
by al-Qaeda militants on security and government buildings in the south of Yemen ,
officials say. The official Saba news agency said car bombs were used in the
dawn assault on the town of Bayda ,
which was repelled.
State Department
Endorses Handbook Calling Jihad ‘Noble.’ Handbook so controversial Canadian
cops rejected it
Excerpt: “From letting members of designated terrorist
groups into the White House, backing the Muslim Brotherhood in the so-called
‘Arab Spring’, responding to demands of Islamic groups to purge counter-terror
training materials, to endorsing extremist Islamic clerics like Sheikh Bin
Bayyah only then to have to apologize, and now this,” he said. “To describe it
as a series of missteps is a gross understatement. This is a coordinated
campaign of counter-terror catastrophe.”
Excerpt: ABC-7 asked Fort
Bliss spokesperson Lt. Col. Lee Peters
if this was related to the alleged Islamic State threat in Juarez .
(Guarding against "Noble Jihad." ~Bob)
British Watchdog
Freezes Galloway 's Hamas-Supporting Charity
Excerpt: Britain 's
Charity Commission announced Thursday that it froze bank accounts
for Viva Palestina, an aid group which has delivered cash and supplies to Hamas
officials in Gaza .
In addition, the Commission, responsible for regulating charities in England and Wales , also replaced the group's
trustees with an interim manager
Dramatic moment
anti-terror police arrested medical student dubbed The Surgeon over alleged
ISIS-plot to attack Britain – in a flat just yards from scene of raid on 21/7
bombers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2783689/Four-men-arrested-suspicion-terror-offences-series-raids-London.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2783689/Four-men-arrested-suspicion-terror-offences-series-raids-London.html
Excerpt: A British medical student suspected of plotting
with Islamic State announced ‘I smell war’ just hours before he was arrested. Tarik
Hassane, 21, known to friends as ‘The Surgeon’, was being questioned last night
over allegations he wanted to bring terror to the streets of Britain . He was
Tasered by armed police who stormed a relative’s flat where he was sleeping
after flying into the country.
Can Liberalism Be
Saved From Itself? By Sam Harris
Excerpt: The most controversial thing I said was: “We have to
be able to criticize bad ideas, and Islam is the Mother lode of bad ideas.”
This statement has been met with countless charges of “bigotry” and “racism”
online and in the media. But imagine that the year is 1970, and I said:
“Communism is the Mother lode of bad ideas.” How reasonable would it be to
attack me as a “racist” or as someone who harbors an irrational hatred of
Russians, Ukrainians, Chinese, etc. This is precisely the situation I am in. My
criticism of Islam is a criticism of beliefs and their consequences—but my
fellow liberals reflexively view it as an expression of intolerance toward
people. (Welcome to our world, Sam--liberals ALWAYS impugn the motives of those
who disagree with them, rather than address the issues. ~Bob)
Pro-ISIS radicals with machetes, knives attack Kurds in Germany (VIDEO)
Extremists burn a
Coptic church in Germany
Excerpt: The mayor of Berlin
condemned attacking and burning St. Athanasius and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox
Church in Berlin
by extremists describing it as a crime against peaceful coexistence.
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