Update
Health
Been feeling fine. Had a low-blood-sugar hit Wednesday,
couldn't finish PT Rehab, but was fine at PT on Friday. The lung doesn't like
the cold air--lots of mucus, coughing and a drop in the FEV numbers, but I'm feeling
okay. Bonnie and I baked two apples pies for church today. she rolled out the
crust after I made the dough. They look good--we'll see tomorrow if they are.~Bob
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Book Recommendation: American Freedom, American Slavery: The
Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
Published in 1975, this well-written history of the Virginia colony from Jamestown to the
Revolution and the foundations of American slavery is
straightforward and very readable. It explores the historical contradiction
between slavery and the struggle for freedom. The revolution was led military
and politically by Virginia
slaveholders. At that time, 40% of slaves in the colonies were in Virginia . The Virginia colony was
hardly the bucolic paradise some might imagine. Mortality was high, corruption
rampant, life difficult and the large men oppressed the small men. Early labor
was provided by indentured servants, whose lot was little better than slaves.
They were beaten, sometimes fatally, though probably not as bad as slaves.
Their contracts could be sold, and investing in them, as later in slave, was
highly profitable. They were better off in that their contracts could expire if
they lived, and they became free, but the planters sought every excuse to have
the Council extend the contracts for some violation, often trivial. Morgan made
me glad that my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great
grandfather, John Hall, emigrated not to Virginia ,
but to Massachusetts in 1630, where he became
one of the "First Comers" in Yarmouth
on Cape Cod and lived into his 90s. Some
interesting takes from the book that sound current: In the 1600s, the Virginia
Assembly complained that an act of parliament affecting their trade was the
result of avaricious men "whose sickle has been over long in our
harvest." I laughed out loud--nothing changes. Government is still where
"avaricious men" go to put their sickle in your harvest. Other good
quotes: "Men with guns are not as easily exploited as men without
them." p. 240. "(People) wanted an end to fruitless government
expenditures. Much of their tax money, they suspected, was going to line the
pockets of a pack of public officials. ... they wanted a public accounting of
public funds--they wanted specifically to be told what their taxes were paying
for." P.276-277. " But (John) Locke made it clear to Englishmen that
the legislature must be supreme and that the executive must be limited by the
laws that the legislative branch enacted." P.347. "Firearms were
great levelers, and the use of them by ordinary men against established
authority was in itself enough to generate leveling thoughts." This book
is well worth reading.
Not me: Nashua
Excerpt: A man was arrested in Nashua , New Hampshire
General News and Comment
Worth Reading
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835048/He-s-two-floppy-shoes-short-complete-clown-outfit-Republican-congressman-says-GOP-shouldn-t-impeach-Barack-Obama-met-Joe-Biden.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835048/He-s-two-floppy-shoes-short-complete-clown-outfit-Republican-congressman-says-GOP-shouldn-t-impeach-Barack-Obama-met-Joe-Biden.html
Excerpt: A Republican congressman known as a pit bull in Washington said Thursday
that he doesn’t support the idea of impeachment proceedings against President
Obama because winning that fight would elevate the vice president to the Oval
Office. ‘Have you met Joe Biden?’ South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy asked during a
Fox News Channel interview. (Impeach Obama? To budge senate Democrats and
convict, you need more than a smoking gun. Maybe a body, on video, and 100
angels as witnesses. Maybe. An effort to impeach helps the Dems raise money,
and a vote helps Obama the way it helped Clinton ,
because the media will blame the GOP and politics. But suppose you did convict?
First, there would be riots in the cities, with hundreds dead and millions in
damages. Which the media would blame on the GOP, not the rioters. Then you'd
have President Biden. Who would go into 2016 with a united party, tons of cash,
and 100% turn out among blacks itching to punish the GOP. Think about President
Biden through 2020. Get over it. ~Bob)
Video: MSNBC
Reporter’s Seriously Blunt Question to Dem Candidate in Senate Runoff
Excerpt: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) may have been caught off
guard when a reporter asked her a seriously blunt question on Thursday about
her chances in an upcoming Senate runoff election against her Republican
opponent. “Your leaders are not standing with you today. Are you a lost cause?”
MSNBC political correspondent Kasie Hunt asked.
Sen. Harry M. Reid
sees dissent but holds onto Democratic leadership role
Excerpt: Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid faced the
first internal opposition to his grip on power Thursday as at least six
Democrats rejected his bid for another leadership term during an emotional
meeting following last week’s drubbing in the midterm elections. Quelling a
small but vocal rebellion, Reid (D-Nev.) won reelection to another term atop
the caucus, now as minority leader after eight years in the majority. But his
victory came only after a 31 / 2-hour meeting that became a forum for
political grievances and a rollout of an expanded leadership team meant to
balance the caucus’s ideological and regional diversity.
Excerpt:
While 2014 was not exactly "the year of
the woman," this new Congress will feature a number
of new women and women in new roles. Here's a list of who we're looking out
for:
Caught on camera:
Pregnant beggar with boy drives off in a Mercedes Benz
Excerpt: An outraged viewer contacted Team 10 after
she watched a pregnant woman and a boy beg for money in a shopping center and
then drive away in a Mercedes Benz. ... "I noticed they grabbed their
little boy and they got into a Mercedes Benz," Smith said. "I
thought, 'Wow, a Mercedes Benz. It's not even used -- it's not old. It's a new
Benz.'" ... "Lo and beyond they were in front of us," she said.
"Here they are counting money, laughing and their little boy is not in a
car seat or seat belt. He's all the way in the front seat with them."
Excerpt: Should we really be worried about war between the United States and China ? Yes. Over the last four
decades of studying China , I
have spoken with hundreds of members of China 's military, the People's
Liberation Army (PLA), and read countless Chinese military journals and
strategy articles. Chinese military and political leaders believe that their
country is at the center of American war planning. In other words, Beijing believes that the United
States is readying itself for the possibility of a
conflict with China
-- and that it must prepare for that eventuality.
Excerpt: A cache of emails from a private listserv
maintained by Democratic operatives Robby Mook and Marlon Marshall — contenders
for top positions on Hillary Clinton's potential presidential campaign —
was leaked to ABC News and published Friday. But rather than coming from
Republican rivals, which wouldn't be terribly surprising, the leak
reportedly came from within the group's ranks.
Joe Biden claims
middle class devastated during Clinton
Excerpt: Vice President Joseph R.
Biden took a swipe Thursday at the Clinton administration — and
at possible presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton — by saying the
middle class declined “all through the ‘90s.”
Excerpt: The state of Texas
continues to outperform the other 49 states, writes J.D. Tuccille at
Reason.com. In September, the state saw a 3.2 percent increase in employment,
compared to 2.2 percent among the country as a whole. Its unemployment rate is
5.2 percent, 0.7 percentage points below the national rate of 5.9 percent. Why
so successful? The state is routinely ranked as having one of the best
environments for business. And according to a recent study from WalletHub , Texas Texas as number two for
economic freedom within the United
States .
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The oppressed oppress the oppressors. And everyone
including the oppressors agrees that this is only fair because the oppressors
deserve to be oppressed. After all they are the oppressors. They deserve to
have the money they earn taken away. They deserve to be sent to the back of the
line when applying to a college or looking for a job. They deserve to be
beaten, robbed, raped, and taunted with slurs that would lead to national
outrage if it were directed at the oppressed.
Elizabeth Warren gets rock-star reception at liberal donors
confab By Kenneth P. Vogel
Excerpt: Elizabeth Warren insists she has no interest in running for president
in 2016, but the rich liberals to whom she spoke Thursday afternoon seemed
unwilling to take ‘no’ for an answer. The Massachusetts senator got a rock stars’
welcome during a closed-door speech to major donors, one of whom interrupted
her by yelling “Run, Liz, Run!” (If elected President, will
1/32-native-American-by-family-tradition Warren
ban "Hail to the Chief" as racist? ~Bob)
Excerpt: For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to
worship idols. It’s not that my parents raised me that way, because they
didn’t; I was brought up in a loving, secure, Christian home. But from childhood
until today, my heart has been drawn to idolatry. In fact, if I’m honest, one
of the defining features of my identity has been my desire to put something
else – popularity, money, influence, sex, success – in place of God. That’s
just who I am.
Saw the pickets Friday: Postal workers protest plans
to close Wisconsin mail facilities
Excerpt: The U.S. Postal Service plans to close four of its
sorting facilities in Wisconsin
next year. Centers in Madison , La
Crosse , Eau Claire , and Wausau will close, with
the mail typically sorted in those spots sent to other facilities.
Tweet from Sean
Lowe @SeanLowe09
Standing in line at the post office might make you second
guess your view on free markets and privatization.
Baby captured smiling
in the womb by ultrasound
Mommy must have had the TV up loud election night. ~Bob
Loretta Lynch
Belonged to Jew-Hating, Pro-Terrorist Harvard Group
Excerpt: Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch belonged to
a student group that brought Jew-hating Palestinian terrorists to Harvard Law School Palestine ”
and expressed support for the terrorist organization.
Excerpt: Historians have increasingly written that Sherman ’s plan for the
systematic obliteration in late 1864 of the South’s war machine, including its
transportation network and factories, was destructive but not gratuitously
destructive. Instead, those experts contend, the strategy was an effective and
legal application of the general’s authority and the hard-edged masterstroke
necessary to break the Confederacy.
Corps to tackle
gender bias as combat jobs open to women. By Hope Hodge Seck
Excerpt: New training will ask Marines to question their
unconscious gender biases as the Marine Corps opens thousands of new positions
to women. Marine officials announced in a Nov. 12 administrative message that
female Marines in the ranks of corporal and above were now eligible to fill
some 2,600 previously closed jobs in active and Reserve units as the Corps
continues to study the integration of women in combat units. This effort is
driven by a Pentagon directive to the services to open all military jobs to
women by 2016, or be prepared to seek specific exceptions. (In order to appease
their feminist base, composed almost entirely of people who never wore the
uniform, much less were under fire, the PC left is willing to accept a lot of
grieving families in the future. This will end badly. ~Bob)
This is True: The
Meek Won’t Inherit the Earth
Subscribe: arcie@thisistrue.com
Police in Fort Lauderdale , Fla. , responded in force to an illegal act: the group
Love Thy Neighbor showed up next to Stranahan
Park Coral Springs , the
Rev. Dwayne Black of the Sanctuary Church in Fort
Lauderdale , and Irene Smith, a Love Thy Neighbor
volunteer, were issued summonses to appear in court to answer to their
lawlessness. They each face fines of up to $500, and 60 days in jail. (RC/Palm Beach Post) ...“Depart from me, you who are cursed, into
the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and
you gave me nothing to eat.” —Jesus (Matthew 25:41-42)
The Transparency of
Obama’s Malignity. By
Edward Cline
Excerpt: Opportunities repeatedly have been overlooked by
the media and even by many blog news sites to more properly assess the true
motivations of President Barack Hussein Obama, based on his character,
policies, behavior and public mien. The scandal that has erupted over MIT economics professor Jonathan Grub’s remarks during a panel discussion
about the machinations behind getting Obamacare drafted, and then enacted in
Congress and signed by Obama, can serve as an important guide to what Obama is
“all about.” Judicial Watch focuses on the “transparent” contempt
Gruber has for Americans: (This writer is not holding back, he is just letting
it all go, every bit of fear and frustration and rage that the past six years
have engendered in him. I wish I could say for sure that he's wrong, and Obama
is just an arrogant, ignorant, socialist ideologue and narcissist, who is also
utterly incompetent, but not an evil man in any sense. But it's hard to dismiss
the discussion that has been given here. On the other hand, whether the driver
of the car drives over you because he's malevolent, or because he's an idiot
and has no business behind the wheel, may not make any difference to your body
once the car drives over you. Del )
Chance
Encounter With Roscoe. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
I usually don't leave the house in a T-shirt to run errands. This morning I did
- blue jeans and a black with 2 1/2 inch white block letters USMC tee - for a
quick trip to the grocery store. (see, Andy was an officer. Except for Church
or other occasions requiring dress up, I wear jeans and a USMC tee shirt or
hoodie almost every day. ~Bob)
Gun News
Elderly man kills
intruder in Oak Cliff home
Excerpt: An elderly man shot and killed a would-be burglar
inside his Oak Cliff home. Police say the homeowner saw Deyfon Pipkins,
33, trying to climb into the window and fired his weapon at least once at the
intruder. (Other sites say the homeowner is Marine vet and quote Pipkins'
mother as saying he should have fired a warning shot. Of course, Pipkins should
have called ahead with a break-in warning, so...~Bob)
Ebola and Enterovirus News
Patient cured of
Ebola in Germany
Excerpt: The Aethlon Medical team has created a device
called the Hemopurifier, which works on the established infrastructure of
dialysis machines already located in hospitals and clinics. “It works within a
dialysis machine, but the mechanism selectively targets viral pathogens and
immunosuppressive toxins that they release,” James Joyce, the CEO of Aethlon
Medical, told FoxNews.com. The Hemopurifier is an extracorporeal biofiltration
device that converges hollow-fiber filtration technology with immobilized
affinity agents to allow for the rapid physical removal of virus and soluble
viral glycoproteins from the blood.
Race Card News
In Scathing Letter to Obama, Former FBI Assistant Director
Slams Holder as "Chief Among Antagonists" in Ferguson
Excerpt: As the Senate prepares to hold confirmation
hearings for new Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch and as outgoing
Attorney General Eric Holder continues to allocate Department of Justice
resources to the situation in Ferguson, former FBI Assistant Director and Law
Enforcement Legal Defense Fund President Ron Hosko has sent a scathing
letter to President Obama detailing the damage done to the relationship
between law enforcement and DOJ over the past six years.
Here’s What Protesters Are Training to Do Once the Michael
Brown Grand Jury Decision Is Handed Down. By Oliver Darcy
Excerpt: According to KTVI-TV, a meeting billed as a training
session was held Thursday to prepare for the grand jury decision on whether or
not to indict Ferguson
officer Darren Wilson.
Great: KKK Threatens Deadly Force in Ferguson
Excerpt: As if it weren’t enough of a burden for the good
people of Ferguson that hundreds of outside
agitators have descended upon the town, now there is one more agitating,
outsider group threatening violence in the streets of the beautiful Missouri town. The Ku
Klux Klan. (I'd be willing to issue the Klan and the protesters baseball bats,
and lock them in the Rams" stadium, the Edward Jones Dome, to fight it
out. But I bet the KKK doesn't show. These days, the Klan are all alligator
mouth and hummingbird ass, but they give the SPLC something to be enraged about
to raise funds. ~Bob)
Darren Wilson's radio
calls show fatal encounter was brief
Excerpt: The records, obtained by the Post-Dispatch via Missouri ’s Sunshine Law,
provide the best timeline yet for the events surrounding the shooting of
Michael Brown Jr., 18. Also released were police station surveillance videos
that provide the most recent images of Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson,
who has stayed out of the public eye since the shooting. Wilson left the police station for the
hospital two hours after the shooting, accompanied by other officers and his
union lawyer.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
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Dems' path after Obamacare: Down, down, down. By Byron York
Excerpt: The question of whether the post-Obamacare
Democrats will remain loyal to the law will be tested. There were 60 Democrats
in the Senate on Christmas Eve 2009, when they voted in lockstep to pass the
Affordable Care Act. Soon there will be 46 Democrats in the Senate, or perhaps
47, if Sen. Mary Landrieu manages to eke out a win in Louisiana . In plain numbers, the
post-Obamacare trajectory has not been good for Senate Democrats. The 46 or 47
Democrats in the next Senate are a bit different from the group that passed
Obamacare. Sixteen of them took office after the Affordable Care Act was signed
into law. They never had to vote for it and have never had to defend voting for
it.
Excerpt: As Gruber-Gate continues and as Obamacare heads
back to the Supreme Court over the validity of federal subsidies in states that
do not use federal healthcare exchanges, the legislation continues to take an
extremely negative toll on the nation's healthcare system and hospitals.
In a piece published yesterday, USA
Today writers Jayne O'Donnell and Laura Ungar detail the devastating
effect the Affordable Care Act is having on rural hospitals.
Worth Reading
excerpt: The Affordable Care Act was touted as a measure
that would lower health care costs and expand access to care, but the reality
has not been so rosy. In a new report, Heritage Foundation researchers Edmund
F. Haislmaier, Robert E. Moffit, PhD, Nina Owcharenko and Alyene Senger
highlight five of the law's broken promises, while offering their own model for
health care reform that utilizes the free market. What promises has the Obama
administration broken with regard to the Affordable Care Act? According to the
report:
Challenging
Obamacare’s health care rationing: IPAB represents an extreme consolidation of
power. By Christina Sandefur
Excerpt: A new petition will be filed Wednesday, asking
the court to review the most sweeping government power grab
in the law. The case, Coons v. Lew, involves the unaccountable health care
rationing agency that the act establishes. The Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, is charged with controlling Medicare costs.
To achieve that goal, the law gives IPAB broad authority to implement price controls, levy
taxes and take whatever action its members consider “related to the Medicare program.”
The law makes this group of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats immune from
control by the president, Congress or
the courts.
EDITORIAL: Jonathan
Gruber’s payday
Excerpt: The MIT economist who is
the brains behind Obamacare has made quite a stir with his admission that
President Obama’s health care takeover was built on lies. Mr. Gruber says
he was willing to say and do whatever it took to advance the scheme, and now
it’s clear why. Obamacare made Mr. Gruber a
multimillionaire, and at the expense of the taxpayers.
Jonathan Gruber’s stature at liberal think tank/Web site:
From expert to guy who’s ‘lying.’ By Erik Wemple, Washington Post
Excerpt: There was a time when progressive think tank Center
President Crafted
Obamacare Deception With Gruber At White House Meeting. By Patrick Howley
Excerpt: President Obama personally crafted a major
Obamacare deception with Jonathan Gruber at one of Gruber’s numerous White
House meetings, according
to a 2012 Gruber interview with PBS. .. Gruber had a powerful partner in
his effort to spin or conceal politically vulnerable aspects of Obamacare from
the public: the president of the United States .
Melissa Francis: When
I Worked At CNBC They Stopped Me From Telling The Truth About Obamacare
Excerpt: During her Friday program on the Fox Business
Network, Melissa Francis made a truly scandalous revelation: "When I
was at CNBC, I pointed out to my viewers that the math
of Obamacare simply didn't work. Not the politics by the way; just
the basic math. And when I did that, I was silenced."
Interesting: Did an Obama Appointed Supreme Court
Justice Put the Nail in the Coffin of ObamaCare? By John Jordan,
Excerpt: This case does not pose a novel or complex legal
question; it came to the court because of inconsistent holdings by lower
courts. The issue to be decided in King is whether the Court can
edit the language of a law duly passed by the then Democratically controlled
Congress, or if the Court must show deference to the law as passed and signed
by the President. If the Court chooses to change the language of laws
passed by Congress and signed by President Obama, it would in effect be
legislating and encroaching on powers bestowed solely to Congress. (Kagan's
comments are interesting, but I would not expect consistency from a liberal
when Obama is involved. And I fear Roberts is locked in now to upholding the
law. We shall see. ~Bob)
Undocumented Democrat News
The Big Money Behind
the Push for an Immigration Overhaul. By Julia Preston, New York Times
Excerpt: A vital part of that expansion has involved money:
major donations from some of the nation’s wealthiest liberal foundations,
including the Ford
Foundation, the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, the Open Society Foundations of
the financier George Soros, and the Atlantic Philanthropies.
Over the past decade those donors have invested more than $300 million in
immigrant organizations, including many fighting for a pathway to citizenship
for immigrants here illegally.
Excerpt: If Mr. Obama legalizes millions of illegals next
week, it will put a substantive drain on our health system and our financial
well-being. Medicaid is the “free” healthcare paid for by taxpayers and Mr.
Obama can’t give it away fast enough. Seventy-one percent of enrollments on
Obamacare are due to the Medicaid expansion according to The Daily
Signal. A key part of the Affordable Care Act is Medicaid expansion for
those with low incomes.
Krauthammer:
Executive Amnesty ‘An Impeachable Offense’
Excerpt: Thursday on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly
File," Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said that President
Barack Obama pushing forward with his executive amnesty plan is an
"impeachable offense." (An impeachment attempt would fail in the
senate and, like Clinton ,
would help Obama. And if it succeeded, there would be riots and destruction in
the cities and President Biden...who would likely win in 2016. ~Bob)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Denver cold shatters
two records, wind chill warning in effect
Tweet from Steve Goddard @SteveSGoddard
Americans are just too stupid to understand that they are
burning up from global warming.
Important: Rising Rail Oil Shipments Beg For Safer
Keystone XL
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/111414-726629-rail-dangers-bolster-keystone-xl-case.htm?ven=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Excerpt: That increase is due in large part to oil recovered
from the Bakken shale formation centered on North Dakota . So much oil has been found
there that the Energy Information Administration notes a 13.4% jump in rail
shipments of oil over last year, a trend likely to continue. This is both good
news and bad news, for increased rail shipments of oil raise the risk of
catastrophic train derailments. A State Department analysis released in June
found that rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline project would result in 2,947
injuries and 434 deaths as oil companies shipped their oil by means, including
rail, that are demonstrably less safe.
Religion of Peace News
Interesting: Five principles that should govern any U.S.
Excerpt: Jack
Goldsmith is a professor at Harvard Law School
and a senior fellow at the Hoover New York University
Law School American
University Washington
College U.S. counterterrorism operations on
a contemporary and more rigorous statutory footing.
Worth Reading : The U.S. Washington
Excerpt: President Obama’s strategy in Syria and Iraq is not working. The president
is hoping that limited airstrikes, combined with U.S. support for local proxies,
will “degrade
and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State. But while U.S. actions may have blunted the Islamic
State’s expansion, they have not shaken the terrorist group’s control of an
area the size of Britain .
If the president is serious about dealing with the Islamic State, he will need
to increase America ’s
commitment well beyond his recent decision to deploy1,500
more advisers. (Obama doesn't want to criticize a Muslim entity, and so he
says that ISIS "is not really
Islamic." He justifies that statement with the fact that ISIS
has committed atrocities, such as beheadings, which, Obama says, no "truly
Islamic" entity would do. Once again, Obama has uttered sheer idiocy,
although very articulately. Obama has enticed Saudi
Arabia into a coalition to combat ISIS .
Obama must consider Saudi
Arabia to be a "truly Islamic"
entity. But, Saudi Arabia ,
like ISIS , practices Islam, follows the Quran,
and adheres to the Sharia. Saudi
Arabia has been beheading those who it
considers guilty of crimes against Islam, since its inception as a country. In
addition to beheading, Saudi
Arabia practices amputation, mutilation,
lashing and stoning as punishment for crimes. Saudi Arabia forbids public
practice of any religion other than Islam. Yet, Obama deems ISIS as "not
truly Islamic", and Saudi
Arabia , as "truly Islamic".
Obama's criteria must not be based upon what is done, but rather, on who does
it, and who they do it to. All Muslims follow the Quran, which establishes
Islamic doctrine. And, Islamic doctrine includes "death to infidels".
Obama, and other Western leaders, never mention the doctrine. It would not be
"politically correct" to mention it. But, the Muslim World takes it
very seriously. The two major branches of Islam, the Sunnis and the Shia, each
consider the other to be "infidels", and they have been killing each
other for centuries, for that reason. They still are, and, of course, they are
killing non-Muslim "infidels", as well. But, Obama, President of a
nation of "infidels", ignores the Islamic death sentence for the
American people, and instead, fantasizes that "Islam is the religion of
love", and, Islamic terrorism is the work of a tiny minority".
However, any fool can see that the Sunnis and the Shia are hardly "a tiny
minority", and any fool can see that "death to the infidels" is
hardly a message of love. --Syd Chaden in the comments section.
The Islamic State and
Jabhat al-Nusra: A Looming Grand Jihadi Alliance
Excerpt: The international coalition- led by the U.S.-
against the Islamic State [IS], with additional American airstrikes targeting
the 'Khorasan' al-Qa'ida group in Syria (in reality just al-Qa'ida veterans
from the Afghanistan-Pakistan embedded with Syria's al-Qa'ida affiliate Jabhat
al-Nusra [JN])- has prompted media speculation of a wider truce, alliance or
even merger between IS and JN. For example, on 28 September, Martin Chulov of The Guardian cited a "senior
source" claiming "war planning meetings" held between JN and IS
leaders.
Why the US Is Losing Yemen
Excerpt: “The Yemeni government is under enormous pressure
from multiple fronts,” he said. “And we’re in danger of losing a key partner in
our counter-terrorism allies.” It was not the statement itself that was
surprising for those who have been paying attention to events in Yemen . Rather,
it was a rare admission from a U.S. official
that things weren’t going well in the country, which the Obama administration
has cast as a key success story in the battle against al-Qaeda.
Report: $420M in U.S.
Weapons, ‘Sensitive Items’ Go Missing in Afghanistan
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/report-420m-in-u-s-weapons-sensitive-items-go-missing-in-afghanistan/
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/report-420m-in-u-s-weapons-sensitive-items-go-missing-in-afghanistan/
Excerpt: Nearly $420 million in weapons and other “sensitive
items” have gone missing from U.S. Army bases in Afghanistan and are not likely to
be recovered due to mismanagement and improper accounting, according to an
internal report by the Pentagon’s inspector general obtained by
the Washington Free Beacon.
Hamas bombed Fatah
officials' homes and faked ISIS claim of
responsibility
Excerpt: November 7th explosions were conducted by the Hamas
military branch, and were not coordinated with the political branch, a western
intelligence source revealed.
Pakistani teens slit
their mother and step-sisters' throats in 'honour killing' after accusing them
of adultery and 'immoral behaviour'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2830241/Teenage-boys-slit-mother-step-sisters-throats-honour-killing-accusing-adultery-immoral-behaviour.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2830241/Teenage-boys-slit-mother-step-sisters-throats-honour-killing-accusing-adultery-immoral-behaviour.html
I bet Thanksgiving dinner will be awkward at their house.
~Bob
Excerpt: The US
targeted al Qaeda's network in Syria
in one of the 20 airstrikes that took place between Nov. 12 and Nov. 14. While
the US
military has said the strike was carried out against al Qaeda's so-called
Khorasan Group, the targets indicate that local infrastructure used by the Al
Nusrah Front were hit. US Central Command, or CENTCOM, noted that it
"struck terrorists associated with a network of veteran al Qaeda
operatives, sometimes called the 'Khorasan Group,' who are plotting external
attacks against the United States and our allies" in one of the attacks.
Teenage Saudi Girl
Won't Have to Marry 90-Year-Old. By Phyllis Chesler
Excerpt: A Saudi teenager, told she would marry a handsome
young man whom she had been allowed to meet, was shocked when she discovered
that her father had tricked her and that her groom was a man in his nineties.
She is 17-years old. Amazingly, the girl bolted and called the police. Headlines, and a
social media campaign, condemned her father, accusing him of "selling his daughter to an old man." A court
just ruled the marriage "null and void."
Al-Shabaab kidnaps
residents, beheads 2 women in Kudha. By Fuad Ahmed in Mogadishu
Excerpt: Al-Shabaab beheaded two women and kidnapped more
than 20 civilians it accused of spying and opposing its views after briefly
re-taking control of Kudha island on November 8th.
Al-Shabaab militants went door-to-door in Kudha, rounding up
young women and men they accused of spying for the Interim Jubba
Administration. Above, residents who fled their homes in Bulomarer are able to
return home August 31st after African Union Mission in Somalia troops liberated the town
from al-Shabaab. "I can guarantee that the two women beheaded by
al-Shabaab and the more than 20 civilians they [kidnapped] had nothing to do
with the accusations levelled against them of spying for the Interim Jubba
Administration (IJA)," said Colonel Urdan Kilas Gurase of the IJA security
forces. "The women were under the age of 20, and what these men are doing
is barbaric," he told Sabahi. (Funny how many Muslims think that beheading
is Islamic, unlike Imam John Kerry. ~~Bob)
Man In North Carolina
*****
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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I am really sick to death of "we can't impeach because... ... ... ... ... ... ". The cities will burn, we'll get biden, or worse, it will help the dims.
ReplyDeleteIt is fucking over when we "can't" deal with the lawless for whatever reason. We have laws by the shitload anymore but justice is just dead and gone, because the bullies would only be offended if not further appeased...
The late great America, sigh, cry,,,,