Update
Slammed for time, but there was some good stuff today I
wanted to post, despite 20 unread emails. Have to quit for the night. Rehab,
labs and pulmonary appointment tomorrow, so reveille at 0500. FEV numbers good
today, 1.657, highest since April 27. ~Bob
New Comment on
"I'm Tired" (Which I wrote and posted in 2009!)
Scary that people that say "gay is a choice" write
in as anonymous. I'm with Mr. Hall...it is not a choice! I am so sorry you
have this disease. We need more like you to speak out. My father was a WW II
POW at the famous Stalag Luft III (where the Great Escape took place). He would
turn in his grave if he knew what this country had become and discard
everything he fought for. BTW, he died at age 35 as a result of his
imprisonment and left 4 children under age 9. --Patricia
General News and Comment
Book Recommendation: Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics,
Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
My wife and I read The
Year 1,000 by this (British I think) author, and loved it, so we looked for
more of his works. Lacey writes with a straightforward, clear and entertaining
style. This is a right-down-the-middle history of Saudi Arabia , with great details
about the rise of Sunni jihad terrorism, Wahhabism, Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. It
explores the struggle between Islamic fundamentalists and modernists in Saudi Arabia .
This is neither a conservative nor a liberal book; Lacey says both positive and
negative things about George Bush when he feels it is called for. He has lived
in the Kingdom for many years, and obviously has an affection for the Saudis--but
not all of them, and his views are not blinded by that. This is an essential
book for understanding both the Middle East
and the terrorist threat we are dealing with. I highly recommend it. Inshallah
you will read it.
Excerpt: Lawyers and law firms have given more money to
House and Senate candidates and party committees than any other industry, with
an overwhelming majority going to Democrats.
Lawyers are top donors in all of the most competitive Senate
races.
Tweet from Skyler Woods @ReturnTo1776
Wendy Davis tweeted a picture of her supporters earlier...except
they were college Republicans, not her supporters
GOP: Treasury
impeding IRS investigation
Excerpt: House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.)
said the Treasury counsel, Hannah Stott-Bumsted, appears to have been the first
department aide to learn that the IRS couldn’t find a number of emails from
Lois Lerner.....But Camp now says that Treasury officials won’t make
Stott-Bumsted available until at least after the election, even though he first
requested an interview with her more than five weeks ago. “This is completely
unacceptable, especially for an administration that once pledged to be the most
open and transparent ever,” Camp wrote to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on
Wednesday.
Opinion: Why Have
Laws That Are Not Enforced? By Don Myers, Col
Excerpt: President Obama has announced that he fully intends
to ignore the current immigration laws and issue work permits for millions of
illegal aliens currently residing in this country. He is already setting this
up by preparing to print millions of work permits for these illegal aliens. He
is waiting until after the mid-term elections so that it will not impact on
many senate races where this issue is critical for the survival of democratic
senators.
Labor Secretary: Adding Foreign Workers Would Increase Wages
Excerpt: This week at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. ,
President Barack Obama's Labor Secretary Tom Perez claimed immigration reform
which would flood millions of foreign workers into the United States
Worth Reading : "Not
Dead Yet: Mortality Rates Among Vietnam
http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/69719858/m/1790018103001
http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/69719858/m/1790018103001
Excerpt: Recently, the Internet has been a wash with dire
predictions of the imminent demise of all Vietnam veterans. Both alarmed and
suspicious, Vietnam
veteran Pat Brady did some investigating. Here’s what he found. (This is a very
interesting paper dealing with a lot of false information about the mortality
rate of Vietnam
vets who served in-country. See especially the last section on the second page
dealing with “Origin of the Myths.” For what it's worth, that little quote
there that goes, "The false number of 850,000 originates from the phony
website of the American War Museum, which disseminates much false information,
for reasons which only its manager (it is a one-man operation) might
know." is from me, dating back maybe 2 or 3 years ago. I started writing
about that screaming AH at least four years ago, when I first came across the
stupid quote. Which has unfortunately been picked up by all kinds of people who
should know better and still appears to this day on many veterans' websites and
blogs. Of course, the very youngest Viet Nam vet, who was 18 in 1972,
when almost every one of us was gone, is today 60 years old, and starting to
age. But the median age for Vietnam
vets is more like 66, so most of us are now well into our "senior
years". Which means.... what? Well, it means arthritis, rheumatism,
overgrown prostate, maybe worn out hips, maybe fewer natural teeth, worse
eyesight, lower testosterone blood levels, less hair, more delicate digestion,
poorer memory, and less physical vigor in general. And that's if we're lucky! If
we're not so lucky it means prostate cancer, congestive heart failure, lung
disease, and other really serious ailments. And it means our overall death rate
is starting to climb, as more and more of us get past 70, when every year is a
bonus. Our time here is getting shorter every year, but we are still the lucky
ones. We came back. --Del )
Jeanne Shaheen
Campaign Kicks Breitbart News Reporter out of New Hampshire Event
Excerpt: The campaign of Democratic incumbent Sen. Jeanne
Shaheen (D-NH) kicked this reporter out of an event at ReVision Energy on
Wednesday afternoon. Shaheen’s campaign asked the owner of the business—who
refused to identify himself—to say to this reporter that “this was a private
event and you’re not welcome here." (Transparent like her master, Barack.
~Bob)
KA-BOOOOOOOOM!
By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
In the summer of 1982 Lebanon
requested United States
Excerpt: Courtesy of Freedom Partners Action Fund, this
is part of a $6.5 million ad buy hitting Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa,
New Hampshire (online only), and North Carolina. Which is good news, but I have
to ask something: how, in God’s name, can anybody look at this
and not see it as speech? Just how ignorant do the professional
scaremongers of the Democratic party think that we are that we
might not recognize that the ability to say This politician is a
fool; do not vote for fools is the bedrock of the First Amendment? What are
they scared of?
A Vote for Bruce
Braley is a Vote for Obama
9 percent of likely
2014 voters are ‘enthusiastic’ about President Obama. By Aaron Blake
Excerpt: But while it's well understood that Obama's
unpopularity is driving GOP enthusiasm, we haven't really studied the inverse
-- i.e. just how little Obama's presidency is motivating Democrats to vote. ...
Most polls ask Americans whether they approve or disapprove of Obama, and some
ask whether people feel "strongly" that way. Generally, there will be
significantly more who disapprove than approve, but even more than that, the
"strongly disapprove" crowd will be about twice as big -- or more --
as the "strongly approve" crowd.
Worth Reading
http://www.meforum.org/4869/as-the-world-turns-will-the-west-prevail
http://www.meforum.org/4869/as-the-world-turns-will-the-west-prevail
Excerpt: It has been assumed, since the end of the Cold War,
that globalization is irreversible and that technologies, cultures, and markets
are spreading, merging, and interacting at an ever quicker pace. This is
certainly true. But what if, in addition to globalizing, the world is also
splitting into separate and antagonistic sub-worlds? Two of them in particular,
which ironically came into existence and have been growing as free riders in
the Western-shaped universe, now pose a threat to the West.
BREAKING: Judicial Watch Obtains List of Fast and Furious
Documents Held Under Obama's Executive Privilege. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: Late last night the Department of Justice complied
with a court order and turned over a list to government watchdog Judicial
Watch , known as a Vaughn Index, of Fast and Furious documents being
held from Congress and the American people under President Obama's assertion of
executive privilege. Not surprisingly, DOJ failed to fully comply with the
requirements of providing a Vaughn Index.
Our New Missiles of
October. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: In October of 1962, America
worried whether an untried young president, John F. Kennedy, could keep us safe
from nuclear-tipped missiles from nearby communist Cuba .
Today’s October worries are more insidious: the Ebola virus,
the macabre Islamic State, a tottering stock market, a bellicose Russia , and a
crisis of confidence in our government.
Much of what the Obama administration and the Centers for
Disease Control initially swore about the Ebola virus proved false.
Voters Strongly
Support Limits on Food Stamp Recipients
Excerpt: Beginning next year, Indiana will limit how long some can get
food stamps, and voters nationwide strongly support similar limits in their
state. Just over half favor fixing a deadline for how long people can receive
federal public assistance benefits of any kind. The latest Rasmussen Reports
national telephone survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a program
like Indiana’s in their state that would limit access to food stamps to three
months for adults without children who do not find work or do not participate
in a 20-hour-a-week job training program. (But the Un-democrat Party will fight
it--against the majority of Americans, as so often. ~Bob)
Your Tax Dollars Paid
for Swedish Massages for Rabbits
Excerpt: Unbelievably, the federal government spent $387,000
to give Swedish massages to rabbits, $856,000 to teach mountain lions to use
treadmills and $307,524 to study whether sea monkeys can be trained to swim.
And those are just three projects of $25 billion in wasteful Washington spending identified by Senator
Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) in his annual Wastebook report.
Ebola and Enterovirus News
Key witnesses to miss
House Ebola hearing
Excerpt: Lawmakers at this week's highly anticipated Ebola
hearing will not hear from several top officials who are working the closest on
the effort. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on
Friday will question officials from the Department of Defense (DOD), the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS). But witnesses will not include Lisa Monaco, the president’s
counterterrorism adviser who coordinates Ebola efforts across the government,
from Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
or from Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and
Infectious Diseases. (Has a pen and a phone; does not need Congress. their
approval, or the Constitution. --Barb)
Official WHO Ebola
Toll Near 5,000 With True Number Nearer 15,000
Excerpt: At least 4,877 people have died in the world's
worst recorded outbreak of Ebola, and at least 9,936 cases of the disease had
been recorded as of Oct. 19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on
Wednesday, but the true toll may be three times as much. The WHO has said real
numbers of cases are believed to be much higher than reported: by a factor of
1.5 in Guinea, 2 in Sierra Leone and 2.5 in Liberia, while the death rate is
thought to be about 70 percent of all cases. That would suggest a toll of
almost 15,000.
Nurse's dog tests
negative for Ebola
Excerpt: The dog belonging to a Dallas nurse battling Ebola has tested
negative for the virus, city officials said Wednesday. Bentley, a
1-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel, has been the subject of media
interest since owner Nina Pham was diagnosed with Ebola earlier this
month. The dog began diagnostic tests on Monday to ensure he did
not contract the virus.
Race Card News
Worth Sharing: Evidence
supports officer’s account of shooting in Ferguson
Excerpt: Ferguson , Mo. , police officer Darren Wilson and Michael Brown
fought for control of the officer’s gun, and Wilson
fatally shot the unarmed teenager after he moved toward the officer as they
faced off in the street, according to interviews, news accounts and the full
report of the St. Louis
County Wilson
is white and Brown was black, the case has ignited intense debate over how
police interact with African American men. But
more than a half-dozen unnamed black witnesses have provided testimony to a St. Louis County
grand jury that largely supports Wilson ’s
account of events of Aug. 9, according to several people familiar with the
investigation who spoke with The Washington
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
After the Election, of course: Premiums for the
cheapest of ObamaCare's pricey health plans are going to jump by 14 percent
Excerpt: Though consumers won't
see insurance premiums for health plans on ObamaCare exchanges until
open enrollment period begins on November 15, an recent analysis conducted
by Investor's Business Daily has shed some light on what they can
expect for low-tier Bronze plans, the lowest tier plans, generally cheapest
available for purchase:
Undocumented Democrat News
He lies. Always: U.S.
Excerpt: New records contradict the Obama administration's
assurances to Congress and the public that the 2,200 people it freed from
immigration jails last year to save money had only minor criminal records. The
records, obtained by USA TODAY, show immigration officials released some
undocumented immigrants who had faced far more serious criminal charges,
including people charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, drug trafficking and
homicide.
Obama Admin To Brief
Goodlatte On Immigrant ID 'Surge'
Excerpt: With questions swirling about the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services’ solicitation for material to create
millions of new immigrant IDs and work permits, the agency has agreed to brief
House Judiciary Committee staff, Breitbart News has learned.
Earnest denied — to skeptical reporters — that the order provided hints
about Obama’s executive action plans. Nevertheless, many questions remain
about the solicitation which explained the agency is looking for a contractor
that can handle a “surge” of 9 million ID cards in a single year and up to 34
million cards for the entire contract. (Born in the USA ? Get to the back of the bus,
"folks." --Barb)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Report: Wind Power
Raising Texas
Excerpt: Of the 10 states most reliant on wind power, nine
of them have seen their electricity prices rise at least five times faster than
the national average, writes James Taylor, senior fellow at the Heartland
Institute. While wind advocates claim that wind power reduces costs,
on-the-ground evidence suggests the opposite is true. Taylor
cites a recent report from the Texas Comptroller, which found that Texas were paying higher
prices due to wind power, despite an overall drop in electricity prices.
According to the report: Not only is wind power more costly than traditional
power, but it is unpredictable, as it only generates power when the wind blows.
As a result, conventional power plants must stand ready to fill in when wind
power fails, requiring additional output on short notice and making wind power
far less efficient.
Federal Report Says Yucca Mountain
Excerpt: A new report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) concludes that storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain
Religion of Peace News
Islamic State
militants allegedly used chlorine gas against Iraqi security forces
Excerpt: Dizzy, vomiting and struggling to breathe, 11 Iraqi
police officers were rushed to a government hospital 50 miles north of the
capital last month. The diagnosis: poisoning by chlorine gas. The perpetrators,
according to the officers: Islamic State extremists.
The chlorine attack appears to be the first confirmed use of
chemical weapons by the Islamic State on the battlefield.
Support for U.S. Campaign against ISIS ; Doubts about Its Effectiveness, Objectives
Excerpt: But most Americans say the U.S. military effort
against ISIS is not going well, and just 30% think the U.S. and its allies have
a “clear goal” in taking military action....Yet negative evaluations of how
well the U.S. military campaign against ISIS is going also cross party lines:
64% of Republicans, 61% of independents and 52% of Democrats say the military
campaign is going not too well or not at all well. Moreover, majorities across
the board – 70% of Republicans, 65% of independents and 54% of Democrats –
think the United States and
its allies lack a clear goal in taking military action against Islamic
militants in Iraq and Syria .
US to train Syrians only in defensive role
Excerpt: According to senior U.S. and allied officials, they do not
believe the moderate Syrian fighters will be able to seize towns from the
Islamic State without the help of U.S. U.S. official
involved in Syria and
Iraq
Dutch Mayor Compares
Muslims Joining ISIS to Post WWII Jews. By
Abigail R. Esman
Excerpt: Lured by local mosques and the Internet, by visions
of warriors and victory dancing in their heads, thousands of European Muslims
have left the safety of their homes in England, France, Germany, the
Netherlands and elsewhere to join the Syrian jihad. Concern about the security
threat they may pose on their return has gripped European leaders for some
time; now, they are starting to focus on ways of stopping Muslim would-be
jihadists from traveling to Syria
at all. But not everyone seems to think it's such a good idea: Pieter
Broertjes, mayor of the Dutch city of Hilversum ,
for instance, thinks they should be allowed to go. "They're adults,"
he said in a radio interview Thursday. "Dutch went
to Israel
after World War II to fight the British, and we didn't try to stop them."
(The reference is to the Palestinian territories, which was under British rule
until 1948.)
Canadian Parliament
shooter reportedly a recent convert to Islam
Excerpt: A gunman who reportedly was a recent convert to
Islam launched an attack Wednesday in Ottawa, killing one
soldier guarding a war memorial before barging into the capital city’s
Parliament amid a hail of gunfire and spawning increased vigilance in
Washington and Ottawa,
where officials wondered how he managed to get into the government building
armed. The Canadian soldier, identified as Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, was the second
killed in three days in an attack by a young Muslim convert.
Tweet from Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A
And this is Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, the brave #Canadian soldier
killed in the #OttawaShooting
today.
Nathan Cirillo's Dogs
Wait For Master To Return
Nathan Cirillo, a reservist with the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders, was killed Wednesday while standing guard in front of
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa .
Below is just one of several pictures taken of his two dogs seemingly waiting
for their master to return. --MasterGuns, USMC (Ret)
Geert Wilders
interview on Canadian TV re. terror attack on Parliament
Geert is possibly the no. 1 anti-terror agent in the world.
He's the only world leader with the guts to tell the truth. God bless Geert Wilders!
--Don Hank
How Canadian
Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers killed shooter in parliament
Excerpt: As Canada
comes to terms with finding itself in the firing line of militant Islamists it
turned for reassurance to a 58-year-old former Mountie formerly best known for
carrying a golden mace. As parliament's sergeant-at-arms, Kevin Vickers' role
is largely ceremonial, symbolising the authority of the body and keeping order
in the chamber wearing a bicorne hat and tail coat. But on Wednesday, when
a lone Islamist gunman stormed the building, he put pomp and circumstance to
one side, found a gun and fired the shots that brought the rampage to an end. He
was back in the chamber on Thursday, a humble hero at the centre of attention,
applauded to the rafters by members of parliament. (A Sergeant-at-Arms is
responsible for maintaining order. Kevin Vickers restored order to a chaotic
situation. Job well done! --MasterGuns)
Atlantic Commander
Warns Canadian Soldiers: ‘To Restrict Movement In Uniform In Public As Much As
Possible’
http://patdollard.com/2014/10/atlantic-commander-to-canadian-soldiers-to-restrict-movement-in-uniform-in-public-as-much-as-possible/
http://patdollard.com/2014/10/atlantic-commander-to-canadian-soldiers-to-restrict-movement-in-uniform-in-public-as-much-as-possible/
Excerpt: After two attacks on uniformed soldiers this week
in other provinces, Atlantic military personnel were ordered to avoid appearing
in public in uniform. Emailed instructions were sent on behalf of Rear Admiral
John Newton about an hour after a soldier was shot at the War Memorial in
downtown Ottawa at about 11 a.m. Atlantic time. (So, a jihadist victory, no? Or
just "workplace violence." ~Bob)
Father eulogizes
infant killed in Jerusalem
Excerpt: At midnight, in a small crowded funeral parlor in Jerusalem , Shmuel
Elimelech Braun stood in front of the small white shroud covered body of his
three-month-old daughter Chaya Zissel, killed earlier that day in a terror
attack.
Hamas, Fatah
Officials Praise Terrorist Who Killed Israeli Baby
Excerpt: Palestinians across the political spectrum are
praising Wednesday's terrorist attack in Jerusalem , which resulted in the death of a
three-month-old Israeli baby. A car driven by a suspected Hamas member crashed
into a crowd at a light-rail station in, killing the baby girl and injuring
eight others.
Allah Akbar! More sex slaves for good Muslims. ~Bob
*****
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/o4nu65u. His blog of
political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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