Update
With winter closing in, we
decided to get out of the house on Saturday, October 4, despite clouds, temps
in the 40s and blustery winds. We drove to Reedsburg, about 50 miles NW of
Madison, for their Farm Art Tour. The art is on a loop west of the town, at
about 40 farms. It was a bit funky and funny, but the countryside is lovely,
and the fall colors, though not at peak, were pretty good, despite the limited
sunshine. For some pictures click on the link below. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Competence Not
Required: Julia Pierson’s ouster is the exception that proves the rule: In Washington
Excerpt: Something unusual happened in Washington , D.C. Del )
2 Louisiana
Excerpt: Two Louisiana
high school teachers have been arrested and suspended from their jobs for
having sex — including a threesome with a student after a school football game.
Shelley Dufresne, who’s a 33-year-old mother of three (left), and Rachel
Respess, who is 23 years old (right), taught English at Destrehan High School in
St. Charles Parish, but apparently their lesson plans included a bit more
than the Common Core Curriculum requires. (Apparently I had a deprived
childhood. this is like selling booze or pot to teens--you KNOW they will talk!
~Bob)
HUD Official Pleads
Guilty To Stealing $843,000 In Taxpayer Funds
Excerpt: Former Housing and Urban Development loan
specialist Brian Thompson pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing $843,000 of
taxpayer money in a wire fraud scheme. Thompson was responsible for selling
properties acquired by the government after borrowers defaulted on their
HUD-guaranteed mortgages.
Obama's plantation economy: Jobs vs. food stamps:
Illinois last in the Midwest
Excerpt: Since the Great Recession ended, Illinois ’ food-stamp enrollment has outpaced
job creation by a ratio of nearly 2-to-1. The
jobs versus food stamps comparison is a strong indicator of economic hardship.
And compared to the rest of the Midwest ,
Illinoisans are truly feeling the pain.
Despite law, Colorado
Excerpt: For nearly two decades, Colorado law has prohibited the use of
welfare cards at casinos and liquor store ATMs, and in 2012 federal law also
required states to have policies prohibiting the withdrawals. But in
the past two years at least $489,000 in taxpayer money has been withdrawn in
exactly those Colorado
locations, Watchdog.org found.
Son Kills One Of
Three Home Invaders In Texas
Excerpt: Family members told deputies that their mother was
in the kitchen cooking breakfast with three young granddaughters when the armed
men broke in. The woman's adult son heard the commotion from his bedroom and
grabbed his gun. "… and when he heard 'please don't hurt the girls,'
that's when he took action," deputies said. The son wasted no time in
shooting and killing one of the suspects. "They were basically at a
standoff, and he discharged first," said Sgt. Felipe Rivera with the
Harris County Sheriff's Office. "One of the suspects did fire inside the
residence."
The Case for Panic: Column: Incompetent government +
corrupt elite = disaster. By Matthew Continetti
Excerpt: I have a second opinion. Not only do I disagree with
the constant stream of soothing and complacent rhetoric from Dr. Zeke’s friends
in government and media. I also believe it is entirely rational to fear the
possibility of a major Ebola outbreak, of a threat to the president and his
family, of jihadists crossing the border, of a large-scale European or Asian
war, of nuclear proliferation, of terrorists detonating a weapon of mass
destruction. These dangers are real, and pressing, and though the probability
of their occurrence is not high, it is amplified by the staggering incompetence
and failure and misplaced priorities of the U.S. government. It is not Ebola I
am afraid of. It is our government’s ability to deal with Ebola.
How Heroin Flows Over
the Border and Into Suburbia
Excerpt: Most of the heroin bound for Chicago
crosses the border in the El Paso
area, Riley said, and is then placed into the hands of local gang members for
distribution. “In Chicago ,
we’ve got 100,000 documented street gang members who largely make their living
putting Mexican cartel heroin on the street.”
Obama tells frustrated Latinos: ‘I’m going to need you to
have my back’ By Jordan
Fabian
http://fusion.net/story/19540/obama-tells-frustrated-latinos-im-going-to-need-you-to-have-my-back/
Excerpt: President Obama on Thursday urged frustrated Latinos to stick by his side, fervently vowing to act on his own to slow deportations by the end of the year. But the growing disillusionment among Hispanic activists over the president’s decision to delay action was evident when a heckler interrupted him during his speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala inWashington .
Excerpt: President Obama on Thursday urged frustrated Latinos to stick by his side, fervently vowing to act on his own to slow deportations by the end of the year. But the growing disillusionment among Hispanic activists over the president’s decision to delay action was evident when a heckler interrupted him during his speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala in
Excerpt: Why does the left care about income inequality? University of Chicago
Tweet from Jason Siebold @jfsbird32
my thirteen year old asked the "hot" boy
"your not a democrat are you?" #ParentingDoneRight
Tweet from Janie Johnson @jjauthor
It seems a bit hypocritical unions are against voter IDs in
US presidential elections but require a picture ID to vote in a union election!
Judge: IRS watchdog not exempt from disclosure law in White
House case. By Josh Hicks
Excerpt: A federal court this week said the Internal Revenue
Service’s inspector general is not exempt from disclosure rules as it
investigates whether the White House received unauthorized
access to protected taxpayer information. Judge Amy Jackson, with the U.S.
District Court in Washington ,
ordered the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to process a
Freedom of Information Act request from a conservative legal group
seeking documents related to the probe.
White House Can't
Hide Look Into Koch Tax Data Misuse
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/100314-720274-court-rules-administration-cant-hide-goolsbee-investigation.htm#ixzz3FBRUbWM9
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/100314-720274-court-rules-administration-cant-hide-goolsbee-investigation.htm#ixzz3FBRUbWM9
Excerpt: A court tells the White House to acknowledge
the existence of a probe into whether one of its advisers used private tax
records for political gain. Transparency is being forced on an administration
that's anything but. In 2010, an attorney for industrialists and libertarian
political donors Charles and David Koch told the Weekly Standard of a senior
Obama aide telling reporters on background that the Kochs "do not pay
corporate income tax" through their company, Koch Industries. How, the
attorney justifiably wondered, did the White House get his clients' private
information from the IRS? (Well, you have to give Obama and his people credit
for being consistent. The IRS is a great tool for slamming or sliming your
enemies, so once you start using it that way, you just keep on doing it. And
there are enough "sympathetic" people working there, like Lois
Lerner, that you can do so and not worry about any whistleblowers. But once in
a while it does get noticed and people ask questions, and then.... it's time
for stonewalling by all the other agencies you can control. Thank heaven for
independent judges who won't let the charade go on, and demand actual openness
of government records. Which is exactly what is owed to all of us, all the
time. --Del )
Obama IS the only law: Holder defies federal court
ruling and refuses to obey judge's order
Excerpt: In an action not seen in the U.S. Department of
Justice in recent history, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder on
Thursday refused to comply with a court order to release a Vaughn
Index of Operation Fast
and Furious documents. Members of a House committee are requesting the
federal judge in the case to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of court for
failing to comply with a deadline a judge set to turn over documents related to
Operation Fast and Furious, according to a federal court motion on Thursday. As per a 1974 court
ruling, a Vaughn Index must: (1) identify each document withheld;
(2) state the statutory exemption claimed; and (3) explain how disclosure would
damage the interests protected by the claimed exemption.
Tweet from Pete Kaliner @PeteKaliner
Sent her kids to private schools => MT @kayhagan: NC teachers deserve a
champion who stands up for our schools.
Ebola News
Obama Quietly Dumped
Bush-Era Quarantine Proposal That Would Prevent Travelers From Spreading
Infectious Diseases
http://patdollard.com/2014/10/obama-quietly-dumped-bush-era-quarantine-proposal-that-would-prevent-travelers-from-spreading-infectious-diseases/
http://patdollard.com/2014/10/obama-quietly-dumped-bush-era-quarantine-proposal-that-would-prevent-travelers-from-spreading-infectious-diseases/
Excerpt: In 2010, the Obama administration quietly dumped
Bush-era plans to enact quarantine regulations supported by the Centers for
Disease Control that were designed to prevent travelers from spreading
infectious diseases. Travelers would have been required to submit detailed
personal information before boarding a flight or ship.
White House: No Ebola
travel restrictions
Excerpt: The White House said Wednesday it will not
impose travel restrictions or introduce new airport screenings to prevent
additional cases of Ebola from entering the United States . Spokesman Josh
Earnest said that current anti-Ebola measures, which include screenings in West
African airports and observation of passengers in the United States, will be
sufficient to prevent the “wide spread” of the virus.
Tweet from Good
Doobie@bayes46
Obama in IL Northwestern Univ, calls the Ebola,
"eboli" If Sarah Palin said that, she'd be made fun of 24/7. Obama is
probably sending "Corpsemen" to treat "Eboli." ~Bob)
Family moved from
home where Ebola patient stayed
Excerpt: Three mattresses, linens, a suitcase and clothing
used by Thomas Duncan, the man who contracted Ebola and flew from Liberia to the United States , were removed Friday
from the apartment where they were left for five days.
Tweet from Melissa Clouthier @MelissaTweets
Hey Californians... Can the #Ebola virus live on your
mandated reusable grocery bags?!? Hmmmm.
Taste of Africa --poor
timing!
Race Card News
Be satire, except true: What’s
Racist, What’s Not (As of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014). Note: Will update
as necessary. By Andrew Stiles
Excerpt: Liberals tend to devote a significant
portion of their daily lives to proving how not racist they are. One
particularly expedient way of doing this is to declare that something a
conservative has said or done is totally racist, and then to place oneself
in opposition to the thing that was racist: “See, I’m not a racist!” As result,
the List of Things That Are Racist has grown incomprehensibly long.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Reality Check: Is Obamacare 'Working Pretty Well in the
Real World'? By Guy Benson
Excerpt: In his speech at Northwestern yesterday (which
happened to coincide with a
pair of high-dollar Chicago
fundraisers, with taxpayers paying for the trip), the President Obama
stated unequivocally that his agenda is "on the ballot" this fall;
voters will have the chance to endorse or reject "every single one"
of his policies, he said.
Undocumented Democrat News
Obama and Chicago
From a Marine Vietnam Vet. He asked me not to use
his name, but seems pretty knowledgeable about this. Take it for what it is
worth. ~Bob
Mother watched in
horror as 2 children hit at Wilson Co. school bus stop
Excerpt: German Arroyo-Correa, 10, and Areli Arroyo-Correa,
5, are in serious condition after the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said
they were hit by an Ford Explorer while trying to board their school bus
Thursday morning. Both children have been transferred to UNC Hospitals for
treatment of their injuries. Troopers said the bus was stopped on Rock Ridge Sims Road
with its lights on when the SUV's driver, 27-year-old Marcos Santiaga Bautista,
failed to yield to the extended stop arm, striking the two children and then
driving away. (Website that linked this story claimed Bautista was an illegal,
but the story doesn't say, so I don't know how they documented it, or if they
just assumed. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not known
as the kind of leader who readily admits mistakes, and Vice President Biden is
well known for his capacity to make them.
So after Biden claimed that Erdogan had acknowledged fault
in enabling the
flow of foreign fighters across the Turkish border, it was inevitable
that a firestorm would ensue. ... But this furor comes at a critical moment in
the United States ’ already
fraught relationship with NATO ally Turkey . (Joe Biden--Obama's life
insurance and anti-impeachment policy. ~Bob)
The Constitution and
the War in Iraq and Syria
Last month, President Obama sent Congress a letter, pursuant
to the War Powers Act, officially notifying us that he had begun conducting
airstrikes in Iraq .
That letter (or more precisely the airstrikes themselves) started the sixty-day
clock. One thing that’s important to note - in both the case of Libya a couple
years ago and in the case of Syrian airstrikes now, the President never
provided that official notification. I may be old-fashioned, but in the case of
Libya ,
I did not feel that the President had proper authorization to proceed and I
argued loudly that Congress should stand up for its constitutional rights and
check him. In that case, hostilities ceased quickly and the issue pretty well
subsided. But in the case of Syria ,
the airstrikes will almost certainly continue for some time. It’s time we have
that discussion. Without getting into any classified details, it’s
important to know from the start that Syrian air defenses are Russian-made
systems. They are not old rinky-dink air defenses. They are sophisticated and
they are dangerous to our pilots. These airstrikes are not without risk.
Furthermore, no matter how much we may detest President Assad, Syria is a
sovereign nation. Where I come from, launching missiles into somebody’s
backyard constitutes an act of war. Therefore, I believe that the President has
the constitutional responsibility to request proper authorization from
Congress. He has started a war with ISIL and technically speaking – he has
started a war with Syria .
That’s a big deal and Congress has the constitutional responsibility to insist
on a request for authorization by the President. It then has a responsibility
to consider it. While many of us question the effectiveness of a long-term
strategy relying on airstrikes in Syria , polls suggest the country is
largely supportive of those strike. So, in other words, this isn’t just about
the airstrikes themselves. Frankly, the President probably won’t have much
trouble gaining the authorization once he requests it. But to treat the process
of submitting a presidential request, debating it in Congress, and holding an
up-or-down vote as an unnecessary formality is treating the Constitution itself
as an unnecessary formality - no longer needed in a modern-day world. I think
that is a complete and utter abdication of duty and Congress needs to step up
to the plate. The simple fact that a military action is popular does not mean
we should just shrug as a nation and fail to deliberate properly as our
Constitution demands. If we don’t take that step, then future presidents can use
this as a precedent to expand their war powers beyond what the Founders
intended.
Excerpt: Dear Mr. Albert Gore: This letter is being sent to
you on behalf of the Qatar Awareness Campaign Coalition. The
purpose is to inform you and the public of the activities of Qatar , the country which owns Al Jazeera America , the
network which was established following your sale of CurrentTV to Al Jazeera
for $500 million in 2013. ... We urge to you read the information below, which
includes evidence that Qatar
is arguably the preeminent sponsor of terror in the world today. It is a
benefactor of the genocidal armies of ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram; it is
involved in Taliban narcotics trafficking through a relationship with the
Pakistani National Logistics Cell; and profits from operating a virtual slave
state. Qatar is
involved in terror operations from Nigeria
to Gaza to Syria
to Iraq .
Child soldiers, mass
executions, and jihadi slave markets where women are sold for sex for $10: UN
report confirms ISIS’s atrocities across Iraq
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2777834/Mass-executions-1-500-time-girls-abducted-sex-slaves-children-used-soldiers-UN-report-confirms-ISIS-s-atrocities-Iraq.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2777834/Mass-executions-1-500-time-girls-abducted-sex-slaves-children-used-soldiers-UN-report-confirms-ISIS-s-atrocities-Iraq.html
Excerpt: UN Investigators believe as many as 2,500 women and
children have been captured, subjected to sex attacks and then sold for around
$10 a head by extremist militants in Iraq .
The Origins of ISIS . Video
Photo said to be of Female
Kurdish Soldiers
Kurdish female
fighter blows herself up on ISIS
Excerpt: A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb
attack against jihadists from the Islamic State group outside the embattled
Syrian border town of Kobane
on Sunday, a monitor said.
‘So-called Khorasan
Group’ Is Actually ‘Wolf Unit’ of al-Qaeda’s Syrian Franchise – Report.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Excerpt: President Obama and his subordinates take pains not
to mention al Qaeda, particularly in the context of continuing plots to
mass-murder Americans, because the president repeatedly and falsely claimed
during the 2012 campaign to have “decimated” the terror network and put it “on
the path to defeat.” The administration miniaturizes the continuing threat by
breaking al Qaeda down into its components and speaking about them as if they
were independent actors rather than a global jihadist movement unified by
virulently anti-American Islamic-supremacist ideology.
The Simple Math of an Iranian Nuclear Bomb. In an excerpt
from ‘Nuclear Iran ,’
calculating, with scientific precision, just how far Iran
Excerpt: No single threat to Israeli—and perhaps global—security
has generated as much controversy in the last decade as Iran ’s nuclear
program. Iranian officials insist the program is peaceful. International
observers, Israeli intelligence, and U.S. foreign-policy stewards are
skeptical. But behind the diplomacy, spycraft, jockeying, and feinting lies the
science of nuclear reactors and weapons: the specific engineering hurdles, the
physics of fission, the “weaponization” of minerals required to produce as
complex a device as a nuclear bomb. In this excerpt from Nuclear Iran,
physicist Jeremy Bernstein unpacks what we know about the centrifuges at Natanz
to take an informed guess at how likely Iran is to have enough weapons-grade
uranium to make a nuclear warhead. (I think we are fairly likely to lose New York City or DC in
the next ten years, destroying the economy and bringing on the fiscal,
political and social collapse that is likely coming anyway, due to debt and
others stresses on the Republic. ~Bob)
Fox’s Controversial
Interview with a Muslim Insider from Oklahoma
Excerpt: On Tuesday night Fox News host Megyn Kelly
interviewed a Muslim insider who has attended the same mosque as Alton Nolen,
the man who beheaded a woman in Oklahoma .
The man had been worried about repercussions from his interview, so he asked to
have his identity concealed, which Fox agreed to. Here is the chilling
interview.
Excerpt: A Bill of Particulars was filed Thursday in
Cleveland County District Court following an announcement Wednesday that the
district attorney would seek the death penalty for murder suspect Alton Nolen.
... Nolen had several previous disagreements and arguments with employees in
the past and several had overheard him say he beat Caucasians, the affidavit
said. After recently converting to the Islam religion, he had been attempting
to convince other employees to convert to the religion.
“Witnesses also advised that Nolen had become aggressive and
belligerent to other employees and wanted others to call him ‘Muhammad’,”
records show
Maher Schools Affleck
On Islam
Excerpt: Maher’s about the only Lefty in Hollywood that both understands Islam is a
death cult and does not hold back slamming them. Watch Bill educate Ben. Enjoy.
Ben Affleck, Bill Maher, Nicholas Kristol, Michael
Steele, and author Sam Harris got into what could only be
described as a tumultuous continuation of Maher’s comments on Islam from last week, with Maher and
Affleck tearing into each other over the influence of fundamentalists in the
Muslim community. (Watch Ben brood like a spoiled child. --JB)
Worth Reading : The Godfather’s Guide to the Middle East: Everything you
need to know about world turmoil today—from Obama to Assad to ISIS —is
in the ethos of the Corleone family. By Lee Smith
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/185394/godfather-middle-east
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/185394/godfather-middle-east
Excerpt: And that’s the point. What makes The
Godfather movies central to American culture is not that they are so rich
with rare jewels of wisdom and insight, but that they present a relatively
accurate picture of the way the rest of the world still experiences reality. Or
to put it another way, if most American males picture themselves as Michael,
the talented, thoughtful yet ruthless former war hero, played by the brooding
and beautiful 30-year-old Al Pacino, the world’s most dangerous spots are
actually run by men much more like Santino, the eldest Corleone boy, whose
stars are ruled only by murder, sex, and food.
Dutch
military backs down from tweeted threats. By Timon Dias
Excerpt: By ordering Dutch soldiers to become
"invisible" in The Netherlands, what message is the government
sending to its enemies, let alone its own citizens? Dutch-Iranian law professor
Afshin Ellian rightfully asks: if Dutch soldiers aren't safe anymore,
than who is? Jihadists now know that a few tweets from a single Dutch jihadist
can fundamentally alter Dutch defense policy. Dutch citizens now know that a
few tweets from a single Dutch jihadist will send shivers down their
government's spine and that -- instead of making sure all threats are
neutralized -- it will order the personnel tasked with keeping them safe, to
hide. The Dutch-Israeli psychotherapist and author Martin van Vliet voices his concern: "Are we supposed to be
protected by a military that orders its soldiers to start wearing the
invisibility cloak as soon as they find out combating Jihad is not a video game
without risks? The Dutch would be right not to place their trust in their
military." (The U.S.
military also orders personnel not to wear the uniform in public except
when going to or from duty. As I understand it, the uniform is not to be worn
on commercial flights. It is sensible not to expose unarmed soldiers to
terrorists, but it is a shameful sign of the times that jihadists are so brazen
and are not the ones cowering in fear. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Excerpt: The U.S. military orchestrates the air war over Iraq and Syria from a
hulking command center on the vast al-Udeid Air Base, a Qatari-owned encampment
that is home to 8,000 American military personnel and dozens of Air Force jets.
Giant video screens inside the windowless, two-story structure allow troops to
track every plane and observe live footage from every drone involved in
operations against the Islamic State. Twenty miles to the northeast, in the
heart of this opulent and fast-growing capital city, the even more gargantuan
Grand Mosque has served as a key outpost for al-Qaeda-linked rebels fighting
the Syrian regime.
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