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get it out to you.
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 then 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.
My FEV numbers were up Monday and Tuesday, but down today (Wednesday). The lung had a lot of mucus I couldn't get out. Cut my time
on the treadmill from 24 to 20 minutes. The PT thought with my heart rate up
and my O2 running about 90% instead of the usual treadmill level of 93%, 20 was
enough. I didn't put up a fight, though I did do the other four exercises. Coughing
a lot today--so it goes. Except to be up tomorrow. ~Bob
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General News and Comment
In a Nasty Fight for
Senate Control, Democrats Hold Lead in Negative Vibes
Excerpt: A good gauge of the overall tenor of campaigns is
the television advertising aired either by or on behalf of the candidates.
Analyses of Senate ads over most of September by the Wesleyan Media Project
show that negative ads are far outweighing positive ads, and airing at a higher
rate than in recent elections. And Democratic groups, fighting to defend more
Senate seats and keep control of the chamber, have been more negative than
their Republican counterparts, that independent analysis shows.
Absurd Reasons Why
Liberals Hate Conservatives
Excerpt: It’s not hard to find people who are ignorant about
other people’s beliefs. All you have to do is watch man-in-the street
interviews. A good portion of the population is ignorant on a whole host of
topics. Even students at some very prestigious universities are more familiar
with the latest Kardashian event than with what’s happening with ISIS , or is it ISIL or just IS? I doubt that a majority
of them would know the distinctions. (A great many students can't find Iraq on a map,
tell you which party controls Congress or explain the law of supply and demand.
~Bob)
Excerpt: Liberal groups are building a grassroots army in Iowa and New
Hampshire in hopes of stopping a Hillary Clinton
coronation in 2016. While the progressive groups don’t have a candidate, they
are hiring organizers and opening offices as if one will emerge. At a minimum,
the groups hope their efforts will push Clinton
to the left. And if the political winds blow just right, the activists hope
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will take the plunge — and turn their
organizing work into the foundation for her candidacy. (Looking for someone to
the left of Clinton --shame
that Harry Pollit is dead. "Harry Pollit was a worker; one of Lenin's
lads. He was foully murdered by those counter revolutionary cads." http://www.metrolyrics.com/harry-pollitt-lyrics-the-limeliters.html
~Bob)
How Operation Choke Point Hurt My Ammo Business. By Kat O’Connor
Excerpt: My business is a victim of Operation Choke
Point—a government program run by the U.S. Department of Justice—which shuts
down businesses it doesn’t like by cutting off their access to banks and
payment processors. In my case, that’s TomKat Ammunition, which sells
ammunition in Maryland .
(So a conservative administration could do the same to abortion clinics and
Planned Parenthood, right? ~Bob)
Obama to designate
chunk of San Gabriel Mountains a
national monument
President Obama plans to announce Friday that he
will set aside roughly half of the San Gabriel
Mountains as a national monument, bringing stronger federal
protections to the range to shield it from crowding and pollution. Obama will
designate about 350,000 acres of public land in the Angeles
National Forest as the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
Police: Man shot in
front of family during home invasion
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/man-shot-front-family-during-home-invasion/nhdD7/?__federated=1
Excerpt: Police said two masked men kicked in the back door
of the 28-year-old man’s home Monday night on Sandbar Lane . The homeowner tried to
fight off the men but was shot in front of his wife, mother and three children.
(Needed a gun. ~Bob)
Will Obama and the
Democrats Repeal the First Amendment?
Excerpt: Obama Democrats Double Down on “Fundamental Change”
by Proposing to Repeal the First Amendment. “All these people talk so
eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old
poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say
let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good
old-fashioned Constitution of the United States—and to hell with the censors! Give
me knowledge or give me death!” —Kurt Vonnegut.
Famous Presidential
Lie
Labor Force. From The Patriot Post
Economist Stephen Moore: "[T]he labor force is 7.4
million smaller than it otherwise would have been had people either not stopped
looking for work or, particularly with the case of younger Americans, simply
failed to start looking for work. In effect, nearly as many Americans have
either left the work force -- or never entered -- in this recovery than have found
a job. ... Here’s another trouble spot: the jobs that the economy is creating
now aren’t the same caliber jobs that were lose during the recession of 2008
and 2009. Workers who got laid off are increasingly having to settle for lower
wage jobs in retail, food services, or leisure and hospitality. This may
explain why President Obama and his allies on the left are able to point to
McDonald’s workers who are the head of a household. If it’s true that mothers
and fathers are having to work as burger flippers, that’s not an argument for
raising the minimum wage. It’s a sad indictment of this recovery."
Excerpt: The average parent and taxpayer has little idea of
what is being taught to our youngsters. In February 2006, I wrote a column
titled “Indoctrination of Our Youth,” followed in March with “Youth Indoctrination
Update.” Both columns focused on rants that a student secretly had recorded of
a geography teacher at another Colorado school
– Overland High
School in Aurora .
The teacher was Jay Bennish. He told his students that President George W.
Bush’s State of the Union address sounded “a lot like the things that Adolf
Hitler used to say.” He continued, “Bush is threatening the whole planet.” He
then asked his students, “Who is probably the single most violent nation on
planet Earth?” He shouted the answer, “The United States!” During this class
session, Bennish peppered his 10th-grade class with other ridiculous
statements, saying the U.S. has engaged in “7,000 terrorist attacks against
Cuba” and telling his students capitalism “is at odds with humanity, at odds
with caring and compassion … (and) at odds with human rights.”
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/07/nebraska-school-tells-teachers-to-avoid-gendered-expressions/#disqus_thread
Excerpt: Nebraska Watchdog has uncovered training
documents given to middle school teachers in Lincoln, Neb., telling
them not to use “gendered expressions” and to call out “binary models of
gender” when they see them. “Avoid asking kids to line up as boys or girls or
separating them by gender,” begins a document called “12 easy steps on the way
to gender inclusiveness. “Instead, use things like ‘odd and even birth date,’
or ‘Which would you choose: skateboards or bikes/milk or juice/dogs
or cats/summer or winter/talking or listening.’ … Always ask
yourself, ’Will this configuration create a gendered space?’”( Here is
another nice example of super PC thinking in action in the Education system. We
can't just refer to "boys and girls" any more, because after all, we
all know that gender is a complicated thing, and apparently we need to get kids
ready in their early years for their eventual discovery that there are
transgender human beings in our society. And that people can decide to change
gender when it suits them, it's no big deal. OK, yes as adults we have to
recognize that there are individuals who have great difficulty with finding
their identities, and sometimes this confusion extends to their gender, and
there are people who totally believe they were born in the wrong body. (I have
known at least two such individuals, and both of them lead very difficult,
unhappy lives. From other reports it seems that a number of people who have
done gender shifts have not found happiness by so doing, but certainly some
people do find it helpful. I won't begin to pretend any real understanding of
such problems, and can only have sympathy for those with such personal
dilemmas.) But doing this over-the-top stuff in school with small kids is just
silly, or at least that is how it seems to me. And you are not going to make
little boys act like little girls, or think like little girls, and it's really
unfair to them to try to push such social agendas on them. Yeah, don't let anyone
bully anyone, but we know that the worst nasties in the world are teenage girls
to each other, not boys. How are the PC ideologues going to "fix"
that? Let's all be enlightened and kind and understanding, great, but let's let
little kids be little kids. They will get into the complexities of the adult
world soon enough. --Del.
After the Coming Collapse, there will be a great cleansing, as people like this
have few survival skills. Of course, old, sick people like me don't either.
~Bob)
UN says hundreds
killed during Ukraine
Excerpt: At least 331 deaths have been reported in eastern Ukraine
since last month’s cease-fire deal between Russian-backed separatists and
government troops, the United Nations said Wednesday.
8 detained in China before Hong Kong
poetry event
Excerpt: Chinese police detained a well-known poet and seven
other people ahead of a poetry reading planned in Beijing
to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong ,
relatives of the detained said Wednesday.
In Kansas ,
the outlook is darkening for Senator Pat Roberts. Greg Orman is
almost a parody of weather-vane politicians, pledging to caucus with whichever party has the majority at
first, but adding he could switch parties later. Good luck rolling the
dice, Kansas
voters! Eh, who are we kidding. The guy’s a Democrat, running as an independent
because he would lose the election if he said he was a Democrat. Kansans appear
ready to fall for it. (If you doubt this conclusion, ask yourself, why would
the Democratic candidate withdraw if they didn’t feel confident he would not
align with the Republicans? Why would they concede the race against an
incumbent as vulnerable as Roberts? (Kansas voters need to put this sign on their bathroom mirrors:
"Supreme Court Justice Eric Holder." ~Bob)
Obama slams GOP as
party of billionaires, then huddles with wealthy Dem donors
President Obama raised money Tuesday from wealthy Democrats
who have benefited from his policies and warned supporters in an email that if
Republicans win both houses of Congress in the
midterm elections, “the interests of billionaires will come before the needs of
the middle class.”
What If The
Conspiracy Theories Are True? Exclusive: Morgan Brittany asks if feds have
orchestrated 'crises' to enable martial law
Excerpt: My fear is that this has all been orchestrated from
the very beginning....Maybe the current administration needs this to happen so
martial law can be declared, guns can be seized and the populace can be
controlled. Once that happens … game over. (To support this view that martial
law is imminent, when I took my mother to lunch today and used I-10 for several
miles, I was shocked to see the "surveillance poles" that had been on
the on/off ramps (tall grey poles with a cluster of 4 round housings for
cameras? GPS locators? and a round, UFO-ish dish on the top with an antenna)
were NOW PLACED EVERY 100 ft or so. Crikey! What is the $$ cost for this need
to spy/control on John Q. Public and who is behind it and what budget does it
come from? (Probably the 2/3rds they can't document....).. --Barb. I don't
believe it. But then I didn't believe Fast and Furious when the first reports
broke...~Bob)
Excerpt: Words have a way of seeping into our vocabulary
and, through overuse or distortion, soon beginning to lose their meaning. Who
could have imagined that the word “beheading” would become commonplace, as
though we were discussing a sport or a new product? “Another American was
beheaded yesterday,” the newscaster explains. And then, “On a brighter note, a
lost little kitten found her way home in a shocking way. We’ll tell you about
that . . . right after this.”
Excerpt: The spots in the U.S. where Americans gave the most
to charity are located mostly in the South.... The wealthy in America gave
less to charity in 2012 than they did in 2006, while those with lower incomes
gave more, according to a new report from *the Chronicle of Philanthropy. And there’s more: Not only
did poor Americans give more in 2012 than they did before the Great Recession,
but the bulk of donations in the U.S. came from states that voted
for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, the seven worst states
for charitable donations voted to re-elect President Obama. (An old story. Most
liberals prefer to be charitable with other people's money, not their own.
~Bob)
The Disaster of
‘Gender Norming’ Ground Combat. By Arnold
Excerpt: The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) has
released a 64-page report analyzing
ongoing research by the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) about the effectiveness of
integrating women into direct ground combat (DGC) units. The Interim CMR
Special Report pokes a giant hole in the Obama administration’s assertions that
standards of effectiveness can be maintained irrespective of the biological
differences between men and women. (You can bet the Obama girls will never
serve. ~Bob)
Rise of the
Barbarians. By Ben Shapiro
Excerpt: On Friday night, a Huntington Beach man, 43, was walking back to
his car after the Los Angeles Angels played the Kansas City Royals in the
American League Division Series. Three men accosted him, and then proceeded to
beat him senseless. He is currently in critical condition at a local hospital
after police found him unconscious. I didn’t find the story particularly
shocking, given that I took my father and two younger sisters to the Angels-Royals
game on Thursday night.
Ebola News
Texas
Excerpt: Dallas County Frisco , Texas
Feds issue rules for
burying Ebola patients in the U.S. :
Liberian native Thomas Eric Duncan
dies from Ebola virus in Dallas
http://news.yahoo.com/feds-publish-guidelines-for-burying-us-ebola-patients-170101294.html
Excerpt: The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the
United States died
from the disease Wednesday and now Dallas health officials are facing a
situation they have not before experienced: how to handle a body that could
remain highly contagious for several days. ... “The CDC has developed detailed
instructions for handling a body infected with Ebola,” the health department
said in a written statement. “The guidelines recommend careful preparation of
the body before movement, including enclosing it in two bags and disinfecting
the bags. After this process, the body can be transported without the need for
protective gear for a driver or others who are near the body but don't handle
the remains.”
How Firestone Shut
Ebola Down: In model response, tiremaker stopped the virus at its first patient
in Liberia
Excerpt: You know all the gnashing of teeth about how terrible the global response to the
Ebola outbreak has been? Maybe someone should check with Firestone. As NPR reports, the tiremaker runs a rubber plantation
and basically the entire town of Harbel , outside
Monrovia , Liberia Liberia 's
managing director says they "went into crisis mode": Upon discovering
that there was nowhere to treat her, the company turned to the Internet for
help in treating Ebola itself. (And from one of those rotten, nasty,
exploitative US companies. Who knows, maybe people who actually are out there
working and trying to be decent to their workforce have brains and common sense
and can get things done. Maybe we should be recruiting congresspeople from
these corporate positions. --Del )
HOPE & HORSE-CRAP:
Hiding The Truth About ISIS & EBOLA
Excerpt: The Ebola virus is not a threat, but the Islamic
State is. That’s what some of our leaders tell us. Should we believe them? Do
they have a track record for truth-telling that would lend them credibility? The
Islamic State, also called ISIS, hasn’t (yet) invaded America , but
Ebola has. We are bombing the Islamic State in Syria , but treating Ebola here as
an interloper that can be controlled. There is nothing to worry about. No need
to panic. Pay no attention to the disease behind the curtain. Experts are in
charge, and we must always trust our experts. Do you? I sure don’t.
Some Ebola experts
worry virus may spread more easily than assumed
Excerpt: Yet some scientists who have long studied Ebola say
such assurances are premature — and they are concerned about what is not known
about the strain now on the loose. It is an Ebola outbreak like none seen
before, jumping from the bush to urban areas, giving the virus more
opportunities to evolve as it passes through multiple human hosts. Dr. C.J.
Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research
monkeys housed in Virginia and
who later led the CDC's most far-reaching study of Ebola's transmissibility in
humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the
air in tight quarters.
Not Ebola: Deadly Virus Confirmed In 44 States And
DC, Spreading Fast
Excerpt: With the chaos surrounding the first imported case
of Ebola in the United States, many have missed the fact that the Center for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated their website with yet another state
listed as having at least one lab confirmed case of the deadly EV-D68 (aka
EV-68, official name Enterovirus D68), bringing the total to 44 states and
Washington DC.
US military personnel
on Ebola mission to handle blood samples
Excerpt: The U.S. military
mission to combat Ebola in West Africa is
facing questions about the serious health risks American troops will encounter
in heading to the epicenter of the deadly outbreak. According to
officials, a small group of trained military medical technicians on the ground
will not be required to make direct contact with patients infected with the
Ebola virus. However, they will have to handle infected blood samples, which
Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday could be just as dangerous,
if not more.
Dr. Manny: What a dog
in Spain is teaching us about Ebola
Excerpt: As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) continue to update protocols for preventing the spread of Ebola here in America , they
are forgetting to include one key factor -- it seems that pets, can get it too.
On the heels of the news that a Spanish nursing assistant contracted Ebola in
Madrid, becoming the first person known to have caught the disease outside the
outbreak zone in West Africa, the local government announced plans to euthanize
her beloved dog, a mixed-breed named Excalibur....Officials have quarantined
three people Romero had possible contact with, including her husband Javier
Limon, who has so far been unsuccessful in his campaign to prevent the
government from killing the family dog.
Officials to take
temperature of travelers from Ebola-stricken countries at 5 US
Excerpt: Travelers arriving from Ebola-stricken countries in
West Africa will start to have their temperatures taken upon arrival at five U.S. airports
as part of extra screening measures being implemented in the coming days,
officials said Wednesday.
Ebola, electronic
medical records, and Epic Systems. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: Is someone covering up for a crony billionaire
Obama donor and her controversy-plagued, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical
records company? Last week, Texas
Health Presbyterian
Hospital Dallas hospital isn’t the only client that
has complained about its costly information-sharing flaws and interoperability
failures.
Race Card News
Court declares Virginia
Excerpt: A panel of federal judges on Tuesday declared Virginia ’s congressional
maps unconstitutional because they concentrate African American voters into a
single district at the expense of their influence elsewhere. (Gee, I remember
when it was racist NOT to concentrate black voters so they could elect a black
congressman. We created a majority black senate seat when I was a senator,
which of course, meant that a sitting senator had to go in the next election. I
voted for it. I wish they'd make up their minds. ~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
A New Study Shows
that Obamacare Will Cut Employment by more than 3%!
http://eaglerising.com/9508/new-study-shows-obamacare-will-cut-employment-3/
http://eaglerising.com/9508/new-study-shows-obamacare-will-cut-employment-3/
Excerpt: Employment disincentives contained in Obamacare
will likely reduce the nationwide weekly employment rate by at least 3 percent,
according to a
study released by the Mercatus Center on Tuesday. The study, authored
by University of Chicago
Excerpt: Gallup reports
that in the short term, most Americans think Obamacare has hurt more than
helped: “Americans overall are both more positive and more negative about the
law’s effect on themselves and their families. Since the start of this year,
the percentage saying the law has helped them has increased from 10% to 16%,
while the percentage saying it has hurt them has also gone up, and by a similar
amount, from 19% to 27%.” The long-term effects get a similar response:
“Forty-six percent say the law will make things worse in the long run, while
36% say it will make things better and 15% say it will not make much
difference.”
How Walmart is
showing that Obamacare is working. By Paul Waldman
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/10/08/how-walmart-is-showing-that-obamacare-is-working/
Excerpt: Walmart announced
today that as of the beginning of next year it will be dropping health
insurance for 30,000 employees who work less than 30 hours per week. Many
liberals will react to the news by saying that it’s just a profit-hungry corporation once
again screwing over its employees. Conservatives are likely to say that this
just shows what a mess Obamacare has created and why it should be repealed (and
replaced with the Republican alternative, which by now should be known as
GodotCare, since people keep talking about it and it never shows up). (All
corporations are "profit-hungry"-would you invest in one that wasn't?
A corporation has one job: to make money for the owners, be they rich
one-percenters like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, or retired folks like me
living on meager investments in mutual funds. ~Bob)
Liberals: Fine, Obamacare is Forcing People Off of Their
Plans, and That's Great News. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: Kliff is often a solid reporter on healthcare
issues, but she's also an Obamacare-supporting liberal who now works
for Vox, so of course she's trying to explain why tens of thousands
of people losing their existing plans is actually a 'great deal.' There's a
strong policy argument to be made the decoupling healthcare from the workplace
is a positive development, if done properly, for reasons of continuity and
portability. But that's not what we were promised. (If you wanted to keep
your plan and your doctor, and couldn't, why would you want to keep your
Democrat senator or Congress-Critter? ~Bob)
Excerpt: Hawaii ’s
troubled Obamacare exchange has a new executive director, and he’ll have a mess
to sort out to earn his $150,000 annual salary. Jeffrey Kissel, president and
chief executive officer of HawaiiGAS, replaces Connector Interim Executive
Director Tom Matsuda. He will be the third leader of the state insurance
exchange in less than a year. ... The state received $204 million from the federal
government to establish the Connector and build a web portal, but that funding
largely expires at the end of 2014.
Religion of Peace News
Friday, October 10, is the
anniversary of the Battle of Tours in 732, when the ever-aggressive Muslims,
having conquered Spain , set
out to conquer all of Europe and destroy Christianity--that
"polytheist" religion--for all time, by invading France . (Other attempts would
follow. They were twice turned back at Vienna ,
and also by Don John of Austria
at the great navel ballet of Lepanto, when 30,000 Christian Galley slaves were
freed.) At Tours ,
Charles Martel (Supposedly an ancestor of mine) and his brave but outnumbered
warriors, soundly defeated the Muslims. We need Charles of Don John today. But
I'd settle for Vlad the Impaler. ~Bob
How To Defeat
ISIL? The Governance Problem. By Howard Bloom
Excerpt: How do we defeat ISIL? The traditional forms
of war we resorted to in Iraq
and Afghanistan
did almost as much harm to us as they did to our enemies. They busted our
budgets and left the nations we’d invaded worse off — and more susceptible than
ever to jihadism. So tens of thousands of boots on the ground is the wrong way to go. We cannot eradicate ISIL’s
ideology — jihadism. It is part of the legacy of Mohammed’s life.
Remember, Mohammed commanded 65 military campaigns, fought in 27 of them, and
called himself nabiyyu ‘l-malhamah, “the prophet of war.” According to the
Universal Sunnah Foundation in Pakistan ,
the Prophet conquered an average of 317 square miles of territory a day for eight
years straight. That’s a difficult role model to overcome. But we can deliver
the jihadists a steady string of defeats.
Pentagon: Kobane and
other towns will probably fall to ISIS
Excerpt: “We should all be steeling ourselves for reality,”
he said, for the likelihood that ISIS will take the strategic
border town of Kobane (among, ominously, other unnamed cities
in Iraq and Syria ). Despite
days of coalition air strikes on ISIS positions
around the Syrian town on the Turkish border, the siege of Kobane has not been broken. In fact, ISIS forces are continually advancing on the town.
Congress Should
Veto Another Thirty Years War. By Patrick J. Buchanan
Excerpt: Yet consider the man Panetta wants to lead the United States into a war to restore America ’s
credibility. The president’s “most conspicuous weakness” is “a frustrating
reticence to engage his opponents and rally support for his cause,” says
Panetta. Too often, he “relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the
passion of a leader.” He “avoids the battle, complains, and misses opportunities.”
But with Hamlet as your commander in chief, why would you start a war? And
consider our allies in this new war.
How to Defeat ISIL
from the Air. By Charles F. Wald
Excerpt: week before Sept. 11, 2001, I happened to be in the
Khyber Pass, on a mission related to U.S.
sanctions against Pakistan .
I remember thinking when I came back from that rugged, mountainous place: “I’m
sure glad we don’t have to fight over there.” After all, neither the Soviets
nor the British had succeeded militarily in Afghanistan – in fact, no nation
ever had. Then, suddenly, we suffered the devastating attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, and less than a month later we Americans found
ourselves fighting in that very place I had just left. Not only that—now I was
placed in command of the air campaign against the Taliban.
Obama’s limited war against the Islamic State is faltering.
By Jennifer Rubin
Excerpt: There is bad news for President Obama, for
the purveyors of
the falsehood that we can defeat the Islamic State only from the air, for the
Kurds, for Iraq, for Turkey and most of all for the United States and the West
more generally. It is, however, very good news for Iran and the Islamic State. In
short, we are facing a catastrophic defeat in the war Obama launched with
caveats, restrictions and self-defeating limitations. (When Carter, of all
people, tells you that you have waited too long and “let the Islamic State
build up its money, capability and strength and weapons while it was still in Syria ,” it
might be time to reconsider your war strategy.)
Turkish Inaction on
ISIS Advance Dismays the U.S.
Excerpt: As fighters with the Islamic State bore down
Tuesday on the Syrian town of Kobani
on the Turkish border, President Obama’s plan to fight
the militant group without being drawn deeper into the Syrian civil war was
coming under acute strain. While Turkish troops watched the fighting in Kobani
through a chicken-wire fence, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
said that the town was about to fall and Kurdish fighters warned of an
impending blood bath if they were not reinforced — fears the United States
shares. But Mr. Erdogan said Tuesday that Turkey
would not get more deeply involved in the conflict with the Islamic State
unless the United States
agreed to give greater support to rebels trying to unseat the Syrian president,
Bashar al-Assad.
Telling the Truth
About the War. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Biden, who insulted plenty of people over the
years, has been forced to apologize, making private phone calls to the Islamist
thug ruling Turkey
and to a UAE prince. It’s a humiliating performance for a man who is only a
heartbeat away from becoming the President of the United States to be forced to
apologize to some tinpot despots for telling the truth about them.
Canadian Parliament
authorizes air strikes in Iraq
Excerpt: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party
introduced the motion last week and it was debated this week. Harper has a
majority of seats in Parliament so the vote was all but assured. The motion
passed 157-134. (Whip. Our President doesn't need to ask the legislative branch
for authority to bomb. or anything else. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Local security officials in the central Yemeni city
of Baydah reported a series of attack carried out by al Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) early this morning. AQAP fighters attacked several
military targets in the city, including a Special Forces headquarters, a police
station, and two military checkpoints. While initial reports from the main
hospital in the city claimed that at least 10 police officers were killed in
the attacks, security officials later
claimed that 11 soldiers were killed in addition to 12 AQAP fighters.
Congressman: ‘At
least 10 ISIS fighters’ caught
trying to cross into US
Excerpt: A Republican congressman
claimed Tuesday that "at least 10" Islamic State
"fighters" have been caught trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border
into Texas, though an administration official denied it. Rep. Duncan
Hunter, R-Calif., said he learned the information from the Border Patrol,
warning that the alleged attempts to cross into the U.S. raise serious security
concerns. "ISIS is coming across the
southern border," he told Fox News. (Hunter is a Marine vet of Iraq , a solid
guy, and son of another Congressman. ~Bob)
Report: 4 Islamic
Terrorists Found In Texas
Excerpt: A noted Washington watchdog
organization on Wednesday said four “Islamic terrorists” have been
caught in Texas after coming into
the U.S. across
the Mexican border in just the last 36 hours. Judicial Watch announced its sources within the
Department of Homeland Security say the arrests were made by federal
authorities and the Texas Department of Public Safety in McAllen and Pharr . “If they catch five
or 10 of them, we know there are dozens more that did not get caught.”
Hunger Growls in Egypt
Excerpt: Egypt ,
famed for millennia as the "breadbasket of the Mediterranean ,"
now faces alarming food shortages. A startlingly candid report in Cairo 's Al-Ahram newspaper
by Gihan Shahine, entitled "Food for Stability" makes clear the extent of the
crisis. ... These children are not unusual: according to the UN's World Food Programme (WFP),
malnutrition stunts 31 percent of Egyptian children between six months and five
years of age, one of the highest rates in the world. WFP also found in 2009
that malnutrition reduced Egypt 's
GDP by about 2 percent.
André Carson,
Islamists’ Choice for the House of Representatives: Leading Islamist groups are
contributing more to Democrats than to Republicans by a ratio of 17 to 1. By
Daniel Pipes
Excerpt: In the 2013 and 2014 federal campaigns, Islamists
gave Democrats $57,408 and only $3,326 to Republicans.
Arrests 'may have
foiled terror attack planning in UK
Excerpt: The four men, aged 20 and 21, were arrested on
suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of
terrorism.
Surprise: ‘Disarmed’
Assad regime has been hiding chemical weapons facilities
Excerpt: A quick update on the largely forgotten half of
President Obama’s shambolic Syria policy. You’ll recall, of course, the blown chemical weapons “red line” and the subsequent, humiliating Putin/Assad plan that accidentally became US policy after John Kerry blundered
into it. Kerry has since admitted that the entire proposition has collapsed,
forcing the White House to publicly disagree with its own Secretary of State.
Excerpt: Reverend Gideon Obasogie, the director of Catholic
Social Communication of Maiduguri Diocese in Borno State
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