Update
Thanksgiving Snow
Our area is a Winter Wonderland, mostly white, with 3-5 inches
of snow covering everything the day before Thanksgiving. And we got far less than
many areas. "I'm dreaming of a white Thanksgiving, just like ....". Reminds
me of this: RFK Jr. Said Global Warming Means
No Snow in D.C. http://www.newsmax.com/InsiderReport/RFK-Jr-Global-Warming/2010/02/14/id/349864/
Back in September 2008, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. wrote an article raising
the alarm about global warming and the resultant lack of winter weather in Washington , D.C. Virginia
children probably don’t own a sled.” They are predicting rain and snow in DC as
I write, 11/26. May be as bad as last year: The long, white 2013-2014 winter: Bringing snowy back to the D.C. region (season
statistics). http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/03/27/the-long-white-2013-2014-winter-bringing-snowy-back-to-the-d-c-region-season-statistics/
The snow has kept coming and coming over the course of several months – not quite
to record levels, but in many areas – close.
Posting early today, as for some reason my wife has invited
people over for a large dinner. I made Cranberry Sauce, Blueberry Crumble and two
pumpkin pies--all low sugar. Hope your Thanksgiving is thankful and happy. ~Bob
Worth Reading
Excerpt:
Not everyone can be a Marine. Not everyone wants to be a Marine. And, some that
want to be a Marine are told they do not have what it takes to be a Marine. But
once you are a Marine, you are a Marine for eternity. It was a Marine who came up
with, "Once a Marine, always a Marine." - a credo, of sorts, dear to Marines.
From a blog reader
Hope you and the wife have a great Thanksgiving and hang in there.
We love all your articles that the main stream media don't report. --Joe & Sandra
Book Recommendation: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
by Andy Andrews
This book was recommended to me by my excellent Physical Therapist,
Jim Carlson, at the Madison VA. Jim is one of the key people who has kept me alive
(so far) and something of a Renaissance Man--both an athlete (why he's a PT I suppose)
and a well-read intellectual. So when he talks, I listen. The book would classify
as self-help, I suppose, but it is written like a novel, in an easy, flowing style.
The protagonist made me want to slap him by page four. But he is in a car accident
and, presumably in a coma, travels back in time to meet wise historical figures,
each of whom gives him a tenet toward having a successful life. I had to agree with
the wisdom. I think I've done well with six of them, which may account for my career
success. (I do have a problem with the one on forgiveness; as a Marine I want to
destroy my enemy, raze his cities and salt the land so nothing will grow there.
Then talk about forgiveness. But I don't say that's right.) I plan to give a copy
of this book as a Christmas present and a teen version, The Young Traveler's Gift
to my granddaughter. (She doesn't read my blog, so mum's the word. I think most
readers will benefit from it. A caveat--it has a religious base, so Christians and
Jews will like it more than proselytizing secular humanists.
General News and Comment
Worth Reading : The once
great country of America is crumbling
before our eyes, so what will our U.S. Calgary
Excerpt: America
is a mess and the world can barely tear its eyes away from the unfolding train wreck.
Our friends are at a crossroads and the implications for Canada and the rest
of the beleaguered free world are monumental. Like it or not, the U.S.A. is the symbol
of world freedom and liberty. Without it, I shudder to think what will happen to
us. America
must fight to survive the Obama debacle.
VA Manager at the Center of Phoenix Scandal Gets Fired. By Bryan
Preston
Department of Veterans Affairs officials on Monday said they
had “formally removed,” Sharon Helman, the director of the Phoenix VA Health Care
System, where the largest nationwide scandal in the agency’s history first came to light
this summer. Helman has been on paid administrative leave for nearly six months,
following findings that employees at her hospital lied about health-care wait times
for former troops seeking treatment for everything from cancer to post-traumatic
stress disorder. (Six months of staying home on full salary and benefits? Probably
still earning sick days, holidays, and personal days? That's pretty sickening in
itself. But getting some people fired, and publicly known as having been fired for
cause, is a good step in the right direction. --Del )
Excerpt: Chief Petty Officer Justin A. Wilson, a corpsman with
the 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations
Command was awarded the Navy Cross yesterday at Camp Pendleton
Excerpt: Michèle Flournoy, widely seen as the front-runner to
replace Chuck Hagel as the next secretary of defense, abruptly took herself out
of the running for the job Tuesday, complicating what will be one of the most important
personnel decisions of President Barack Obama's second term. (I'm out too. Too busy
with my blog. Obama needs someone with both military and political experience, preferably
black. Say, how about Allen West? ~bob)
Excerpt: Buying small numbers of relatively
large, long-ranged, expensive interceptors like the SM-6gives us “false confidence,” Clark writes in a new report, because a well-equipped enemy like
China or
even Iran could
just keep lobbing cheap missiles
at us until we run out of silver bullets to shoot them down. Instead, we need to
invest in long-range offensive missiles to kill the other guy, ideally before he
even fires. Leave defense to relatively small, short-ranged, and affordable interceptors,
such as the Sea Sparrow, that ships can carry in bulk, supported by electronic jamming
and — in the near future — lasers,
neither of which ever runs out of ammunition.
Carly Fiorina actively
explores 2016 presidential run but faces GOP critics
Excerpt: On a Republican presidential debate stage expected to
be filled with more than a dozen current and former politicians, Carly Fiorina envisions herself standing out —
as the only woman and the only CEO.
Life After The Collapse.
By Don Hank
Excerpt: The U.S.
is fast sliding into lawlessness with a president who encourages rioters and illegal
entry, with the MSM who pretend criminals are victims, with libertarians and lefties
decrying police militarization but not mentioning the desperate conditions that
force police to defend themselves. All of this has at least 3 possible solutions:
1--Restore law and order in the US at all costs using tough love 2--Restore law
and order in the states in defiance of the feds, or
3--Continue as before until utter chaos and confusion ensue and
when the nation has reached rock bottom, start picking up the piece to restore it.
If you can. (Dave is a blog reader and contributor. See my book: The Coming
Collapse of the American Republic http://tinyurl.com/mhn2mdn
All royalties go to a charity
to help wounded veterans. Now with 32 reviews, 29 of them 5 star. http://tinyurl.com/ppgovzf. ~Bob)
Portraits of Valor: Tibor
Rubin (MOH)
80-Year-Old Vet Maced
and Beaten by Police for not Getting Off his Tractor
Excerpt: An 80-year-old military vet and grandfather from Lone
Jack, Missouri found himself getting maced and beaten on his own property by the
local police for being on his tractor and not coming down when instructed to( Where
are the protesters?, the looting?, the burning? Where is Obama? Holder? Sharpton?
Jackson ? Did anyone
hear, "Burn the b*t*h down"? Never mind, that was a different Missouri town. --JB).
Excerpt: Mitt Romney,
the Republican Party's unsuccessful presidential nominee in 2012, leads the field
for the 2016 election among Republican voters, according to a Quinnipiac University
The Vanishing White Democrat.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Bill Clinton couldn’t stop Arkansas from going full Republican with two
Republican senators and a full suite of Republican representatives for the first
time in history. That’s all the more amazing in a state that only had two Republican
senators before that for over a century.
The Democratic Party is going extinct in places like Louisiana , Arkansas and West Virginia . It’s vanishing
because the working class White Democrat is becoming extinct.
Gun News
Excerpt: Along West Florissant just north of 270, in Greystone Plaza
Race Card News
What President Obama should
have said...
In the case of Trayvon Martin. And in the case of Chris Cervini.
And in the case of Michael Brown. And in the case of Dillon Taylor. (If you don't
know Cervini and Taylor, Google them. They were whites shot by blacks in similar
circumstances, but no riots so no media circus.) "I am as saddened and concerned
as other Americans at any tragedy where someone loses his or her life. But we are
a country of laws, not of men, and these cases must be adjudicated by our judicial
system without pressure or comments from the President that would make it appear
he was corrupting our system by putting his thumb on the scale of justice for one
party or the other." ~Bob
Must Read from a Black Pastor: Thoughts on Ferguson
Excerpt: Rest assured, I do believe there are systemic issues
plaguing black men. These issues are violence, criminality, and immorality, to name
a few. And all of these issues are rooted in and connected to the epidemic of fatherlessness.
... Any truly gospel-centered response to the plight of black men must address these
issues first and foremost. It does no good to change the way white police officers
respond to black men if we don’t first address the fact that these men’s fathers
have not responded to them appropriately. There is indeed an epidemic of violence
against black men. However, that violence, more often than not, occurs at the hands
of other black men. In fact, black men are several times more likely to be murdered
at the hands of another black man than they are to be killed by the police.
Worth Reading : The final
review of the Ferguson Del
Yes, the death of an 18 year old boy is always a tragedy. Yet
the sad reality of the situation leading to the death of Michael Brown is not that
complex or hard to understand.
Worth Reading : Ferguson Washington
Excerpt: What occurred Monday night — and may continue in the
days ahead — is rioting as planned event, so pervasively predicted, so extensively
prepared for as to obscure the power and meaning of the protests. A news media obsessed
with predicting the next step, a security apparatus equipped to put down almost
any uprising, and a political power structure apparently seeking to head off violence
by predicting it have combined to produce an unprecedented sense of inevitability,
reducing what has historically been an explosion of frustration to a kind of staged
performance. (What the Grand Jury said: "We do not find enough evidence to
indict Darren Wilson." What the protestors heard: "Good news! Free TVs,
beer and fun for everyone!" ~Bob)
Excerpt: Protesters smashed windows out of police cars and businesses,
several of which were later set ablaze, and officers lobbed tear gas from inside
armored vehicles to disperse crowds Monday as violence overtook protests in Ferguson . (John Adams defended
the British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre, at no small risk to his reputation,
because he believed it was the morally correct course. Obama and Holder would like
to judicially lynch Officer Wilson because they believe it is the expedient course.
--Tom H.)
After a night of violence
in Ferguson
Excerpt: The embattled governor lashed out at protesters over
the wave of outrage Monday night that left at least two police cars and a dozen
buildings torched and the entire region on edge. “Last night, criminals intent on
lawlessness and destruction terrorized this community,’’ he said. “I am deeply saddened
for the people of Ferguson
who woke up this morning to see parts of their community in ruins.’’ (I imagine
the Ferguson Real estate market will be a tad soft in the near future. Like Detroit . ~Bob)
Brave female Good Samaritan
tackles Ferguson
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2850064/Brave-unarmed-female-Papa-Johns-manager-tackles-pair-Ferguson-looters.html#ixzz3KBHvOnEp%20
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2850064/Brave-unarmed-female-Papa-Johns-manager-tackles-pair-Ferguson-looters.html#ixzz3KBHvOnEp%20
Excerpt: The unarmed woman is seen using her hands to guide a
masked man away from the storefront, after he starts punching the windows in an
attempt to smash the glass.
She places her body between the store and the man and appears
to be trying to reason with the looter, who squares up to her and jabs his finger
aggressively in her face.
WaPo Flashback: DOJ Probably Does Not Have Enough To File Civil Rights Charges Against Darren Wilson. By Matt Vespa
Excerpt: DOJ is investigating whether Michael Brown’s civil rights
were violated and whether there are discriminatory police practices happening in
Ferguson . Yet, on
October 31, it was reported that federal officials probably don’t have enough evidence
to file civil rights charges against Officer Darren Wilson, but a DOJ spokesperson
called such assumptions premature (via WaPo):
Justice Department investigators have all but concluded they do not have a strong
enough case to bring civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the white police
officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., law enforcement
officials said.
Video of the Man Robbed
by Michael Brown Standing in His Now-Looted Store Shows Other Side of Tragedy
Well, he was a racist for reporting the robbery to police. As
any good progressive will tell you, if you are robbed by a black thug you should
allow it to happen. Look at the trouble that would have been avoided. If white people
wouldn't fight back, maybe the black thugs would rob, rape and murder fewer decent
black people, by far their leading class of victims. ~Bob
Worth Reading : From Bill
Cosby to Ferguson
Excerpt: This column is not a defense of Cosby but a reminder
of our rule of law. We see in Ferguson, Mo., what happens when respect for our
legal process is lost: Arsonists and looters expressed their outrage that
a grand jury didn’t act as they thought it should. Yet we hear people trying to
defend these actions as somehow acceptable, or at least non-criminal, because of
historical injustice. Nonsense. Ferguson
is what you get when mob rule overwhelms the rule of law, which was created as the
defense of civilized people against the mob.
Excerpt: Ferguson ,
Missouri Ferguson , Missouri Ferguson , Missouri Ferguson , Missouri
Worth Reading : How One
Woman’s Vandalized Bakery Has Become the Greatest Story to Come Out of Ferguson
Excerpt: Natalie DuBose, the owner of Natalie’s Cakes and More
in Ferguson , Missouri America . ~Bob)
Did You Notice What Was
Missing During CNN’s Ferguson
Excerpt: On Tuesday night, CNN anchor Miguel Marquez was broadcasting
live from New York City
when protesters spotted him and began chanting, “F**k CNN!” over and over. Not long
after the incident, Marquez was shown covering the ongoing protests. However, this
time he was missing the standard “CNN” logo on his microphone. (Huh. Gotta love
the, "We're done with non-violence" sign. Might change their mind when
they discover that violence produces a violent response. In effect the sign says,
"F**k Martin Luther King." ~Bob)
Darren Wilson’s attorneys
describe officer’s life in hiding, laud his staunchness
Excerpt: Darren Wilson was mowing his lawn Aug. 19 — 10 days
after he’d shot an unarmed teenager — when he got a call telling him that his address
was popping up in online reports. He quickly packed up his belongings and moved
in with a relative, somebody who didn’t have the same last name. By nightfall, media
members were outside the house. (The media promotes and encourages violence. If
they get Wilson
murdered, it will be a great story and they will make money. They are not, "guardians
of the public's right to know." They are ruthless, money-grubbing corporation
with no scruples. ~Bob)
Liberals Willing To Fight
To The Last Drop of Black Blood. By Ann Coulter
Excerpt: The riot in Ferguson
reminds me, I hate criminals, but I
hate liberals more. They planned this riot. They stoked the fire, lied about
the evidence and produced a made-to-order riot.
Every other riot I've ever heard of was touched off by some spontaneous
event that exploded into mob violence long before any media trucks arrived. This
time, the networks gave us a countdown to the riot, as if it were a Super Bowl kickoff.
Fulfilling the dream of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned
Parenthood, to prevent more of what she called "the unfit" from being
born. ~Bob
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Excerpt: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) confessed today, “After passing the stimulus, Democrats should
have continued to propose middle class-oriented programs and built on the partial
success of the stimulus. Americans were crying out for an end to the recession, for better
wages and more jobs; not for changes in their healthcare.” Well now he tells us.
Chuck Schumer: Passing
Obamacare in 2010 Was a Mistake: The Senate’s No. 3 Democrat says that his party
misused its mandate. By Sarah Mimms
Excerpt: "After passing the stimulus, Democrats should have
continued to propose middle-class-oriented programs and built on the partial success
of the stimulus, but unfortunately Democrats blew the opportunity the American people
gave them," Schumer said. "We took their mandate and put all of our focus
on the wrong problem—health care reform." The third-ranking Senate Democrat
noted that just about 5 percent of registered voters in the United States lacked
health insurance before the implementation of the law, arguing that to focus on
a problem affecting such "a small percentage of the electoral made no political
sense." (I could have told them that. Then. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The implementation of the Affordable Care Act seems
like an unending nightmare. Desperate for some good news, the White House is justly
relieved and celebrating the fact that the government website is not plagued with
last year’s disasters. But other big challenges loom, including the administration
of the law’s hideously complex insurance subsidy system, as well as coverage and
cost problems
Undocumented Democrat News
An inconvenient law. By
Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Obama said he had to move now because of a dawdling
Congress. He forgot to mention that there were Democratic majorities in Congress
in 2009 and 2010, yet he did nothing, in fear of punishment at the polls. Nor did
Obama push amnesty in 2011 or 2012, afraid of hurting his own re-election chances.
Worries over sabotaging Democratic chances in the 2014 midterms explain his inaction
from 2012 until now.
Excerpt: Under President Obama’s new program to protect millions
of illegal immigrants from deportation, many of those affected will be eligible
to receive Social Security, Medicare and a wide array of other federal benefits,
a White House official said Tuesday. (Have I mentioned that a fiscal collapse is
coming? ~Bob)
Obama Admits To Violating
The Constitution: Tells pro-immigration heckler "I just took an action to change
the law”
Excerpt: “What you’re not paying attention to is the fact that
I just took an action to change the law, so that’s point No. 1,” Obama responded.
“Point No. 2, the way the change in the law works is that we’re reprioritizing how
we enforce our immigration laws generally.” he added. (Well, there are some laws
a GOP President might want to change too. ~Bob)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: Can climate change be solved with technologies like
wind and solar energy?
No, it can’t, according to a new report by two Google engineers,
published by the Institute
of Electrical Del.
This is, of course, why these "Green
Energy" projects require lots of Green from the taxpayers--which often ends
up in the pockets of politically-connected Progressives. ~Bob))
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading
Excerpt: It would be no small feat to pinpoint when, exactly,
Western journalists and politicians began losing their grip on reality. I’m much
too young and inexperienced, even at sixty, to attempt such a feat. But I’ve always
thought the day Yasser Arafat received a Nobel Peace Prize was a watershed moment
in modern history, a turn for the worse. I just couldn’t wrap my mind around how
a man best known for murdering Jews indiscriminately (but much less known for falsifying
their history), even advocating the extermination of all Jews in the Middle East , could possibly deserve such an honour as a “peace
prize.”
Christian sentenced to
death for blasphemy in Pakistan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2847305/Pakistani-Christian-death-row-blasphemy-makes-final-appeal.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2847305/Pakistani-Christian-death-row-blasphemy-makes-final-appeal.html
Excerpt: A Christian woman on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy
has filed a last-ditch legal challenge to her conviction for insulting the Prophet
Mohammed four years ago.
A high court in the eastern city of Lahore confirmed the death sentence of Asia Bibi
last month, dashing hopes the conviction might be overturned or commuted to a jail
term. (In a sane society, Asia Bibi’s story would be front-page news, with Presidents,
Prime Ministers and Popes appealing for her release, the United Nations condemning
Pakistan ,
and all foreign aid halted until she was released and blasphemy laws repealed. Instead,
the world “human rights community” looks the other way and devotes its energies
to hunting for examples of “Islamophobia.” --Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org.)
Excerpt: “In the episode, Veena was seen dancing with her husband
while a group of Sufi musicians sang a devotional song about the wedding of the
Prophet’s daughter.” That was it. Twenty-six years in prison for that, apparently
because she was dancing while a devotional song was being sung. Nonetheless, “she
says her faith in the country’s judicial system is intact.”
The Disturbing Heroes
of Dutch Muslim Youth. By Abigail R. Esman
Excerpt: That is the result of a recent study by Dutch research company Motivaction, which found
that 90 percent of Dutch Turks ages 18-35 consider the Islamic State (IS or ISIS)
members heroes, and enthusiastically support their friends and neighbors who travel
to Syria to join them. And 48 percent of Holland 's
18-35-year-old Moroccan immigrants agree.
US-Yemen raid saves eight
hostages
Excerpt: In a predawn raid Tuesday, US Special Operations commandos
and Yemeni troops rescued eight hostages being held in a cave in a remote part of
eastern Yemen
by an Al Qaeda affiliate there, officials from both countries said. The freed captives
were six Yemeni citizens, a Saudi, and an Ethiopian, who were unharmed, Yemeni officials
said in a statement. Earlier reports that a US hostage was freed were incorrect,
according to Yemeni and US officials.
Frontline police say 'let
us patrol in pairs' due to rising risk of street attack by jihadis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2845677/Frontline-police-say-let-patrol-pairs-rising-risk-street-attack-jihadis.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2845677/Frontline-police-say-let-patrol-pairs-rising-risk-street-attack-jihadis.html
Excerpt: Police are demanding to be allowed to patrol in pairs
because they fear fanatics are planning to murder an officer on the street – in
a horrific echo of the killing of soldier Lee Rigby last year. Frontline officers
in London feel increasingly
at risk as they take to the streets by themselves in cars or on the beat because
of the danger of a jihadi attack.
Peace With Islam in Our Time. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Abdallah Bulgasem Zehaf-Bibeau, the crackhead turned
Jihadist spawned by the mating of a Canadian immigration official and a Libyan Muslim
Jihadist, just wanted peace.
He told
a co-worker, “There can’t be world peace until there’s only Muslims.” Then he
tried to usher in peace, the Islamic way, by opening fire near the Canadian parliament.
*****
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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