General News and Comment
Worth Reading
http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2014/11/12/democrats-loss-is-not-a-win-for-hillary-clinton-n1917209
http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2014/11/12/democrats-loss-is-not-a-win-for-hillary-clinton-n1917209
Excerpt: In the old Soviet Union ,
Kremlinologists would read the state party newspaper Pravda not so much for the
news it contained, but to glean what the commissars wanted readers to believe
the commissars were thinking. The closest we have to that in America is the
New York Times. Obviously, it's not a state organ and there are many fine
journalists there, but it does play a similar role for the Democratic Party,
often reporting less on what Democrats actually think and more on what
Democrats want readers to believe is the current state of Democratic thinking.
Unprincipled
Principals. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
In response to recent commentary - 'Marine Corps Leadership Explains
Crushing Defeat of Obama' - that offered perspective citing the 14 Leadership
Traits, readers asked, "What about the 11 Principles?" Well, the
Principles are Part II.
Satire: Feminists Demand Censorship Of “Princess
Leia” Catcalling Parody Video. By Kit Daniels
Excerpt: Feminists are enraged over a viral video showing
various Star Wars characters catcalling Princess Leia as she walks through New York City because
they claim it “trivializes” street harassment. (I suspect the makers enjoyed
the feminist reaction as much as the jokes in the video. ~Bob)
Sexual harassment
dialogue reveals cultural, systemic problems on Hill
Excerpt: According to a 1997 Angus Reid survey of more than
half of all the women sitting in Parliament and in provincial legislatures
found that one-third of Canada ’s
female politicians had been sexually harassed by their colleagues. Sixty per
cent said they had been subject to inappropriate or demeaning remarks related
to their gender. Twenty-one per cent
said they knew of female colleagues who had used sex to advance their careers.
(Last line of a long article. ~Bob)
From the Classroom to
the Capitol: America
Excerpt: As an 18-year-old freshman, Blair ran her general election
campaign from her college dorm at West Virginia
University in Morgantown . When the polls closed on Election
Day, she had made history, knocking off Democrat Layne Diehl, also of Martinsville , 54.5 percent to 45.5 percent, to
become the youngest elected state lawmaker in West Virginia history. On the campaign
trail, Saira Blair explained her race as an attempt to persuade millennials
“that we shouldn’t wait until we’re 40, 50 or 60 to understand that
conservative values and principles are the way to prosperity.”
Will Bribery,
Two-Tiered Ice Cream Pricing Convince Kids To Buy Michelle’s Lunches?
excerpt: “Most of our children take their lunch due to food
preference or medical/allergy reasons and should not be ‘bribed’ to eat school
lunch.” Another parent said it’s not fair to make ice cream more expensive for
kids who bring their lunches from home. “It irritated me that they weren’t
giving a fair opportunity to everybody,” the mad mom told the station. (Just as
under Communism in the USSR ,
some people get more from the Party than others. Bribery for behavior
modification with something simple...eat here...then.... Barb)
Obama veers left
after red wave
Excerpt: In a surprise, he announced a major deal on climate
change with China during
a trip to Beijing Tuesday.
That followed another unanticipated move — a Monday statement
pressuring the Federal Communications Commission to adopt new net neutrality
rules for the Internet. The moves are helping to rally a dispirited
Democratic base while re-establishing Obama’s political leadership after he was
sidelined during the midterms. (Veers? No, he still is running a command
economy and with no pending elections, is king. Incidentally, even the Russians
have found out the command economic systems do not work without some
capitalism....Barb. deal with China
is non-binding--they won't keep it, of course. In my view, he'd have moved even
further left if the Dems had won. ~Bob)
One Third of
Part-Time Workers Struggling to Find Full-Time Work, CareerBuilder Study Finds
Excerpt: Even as full-time, permanent employment gets closer
to pre-recession levels, part-time workers are still struggling to find
full-time jobs. According to a new CareerBuilder study, 32 percent of part-time
workers say they want to work full time, but haven't been able to land a
full-time job. (But the workforce is the lowest in 40 years. ~Bob)
Elizabeth Warren and
the long history of conveniently invented leadership titles. By Jaime Fuller
Excerpt: Soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid
(D-Nev.) is talking with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) about a new leadership
position. It would make Warren a
liaison with liberal groups and ostensibly make her a bigger voice during the
Democratic Party's messaging and policy brainstorm sessions. As
Paul Kane notes, "Expanding the leadership table -- Warren 's position was created specifically
for her -- is a way to answer the critics who think that Reid's team became
insulated in recent years, according to senior Democratic aides."
Elizabeth Warren also happens to be exceptionally popular with the Democratic
Party base, unlike many of her colleagues. Hmm, this is starting to make sense.
(Well, it's about damn time the Democrats added a
0ne/thirtysecond-by-family-legend Native American to Leadership. People will
think they don't include "Redskins" in their diversity meme. ~Robert
A. Hall, Republican Whip, Massachusetts Senate, 1981-82 and one-sixteenth
Woodland Cree according to my grandmother.)
Forcing females into
combat is real ‘war on women.’ The generals don’t seem to care that women don’t
have the muscle to survive the battlefield. By Elaine Donnelly
Excerpt: Now that voters have disposed of the phony “war on
women,” can we talk about real women fighting future wars. More than 92 percent
of active-duty Army women said in a recent official survey that they do not
want and would not take direct ground combat (infantry) assignments.
Nevertheless, President Obama plans to order women into the combat arms by
January 2016. (Well, obviously this is another woman who is a traitor to
her gender, how dare she make detailed comments against the idea of women in
the infantry? But hey, maybe she is just into facts and logic. I'll go out on a
limb here and bet she isn't a registered Democrat. Anyhow, let's hope that the
facts and logic eventually work their way back into how the military makes
decisions about sending people into combat. --Del. Elaine has been engaged in
this fight a long time - she (brunette - above shoulders) is seated to Gen
Barrow's immediate starboard during his 1991 SASC testimony (YouTube) on women in
combat. She is the longtime president of the Center for Military Readiness. She
has not served in the military. But she gets it, is bright, does her (empirical)
homework, and is a meticulous analyst and superb writer. And she does not quit!
--Andy)
Important: The American Century Is Over. The Eurasian
Century Has Begun
Excerpt: There’s hardly a more graphic illustration of where
the multipolar world is going than what just happened at the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing .
Take a very good look at the official photos. This is all about positioning –
and this being China ,
pregnant with symbolic meaning. Guess who’s in the place of honor, side by side
with President Xi Jinping. And guess where the lame duck leader of the
“indispensable nation” has been relegated. The Chinese can also be masters at
sending a global message
What Many Do Not
Realize about Businesses and Taxes
Excerpt: The Tax Foundation has a new report showing just
how businesses are doing in today's economy. While political commentators often
talk about businesses as if they are their own entities, the report begins by
noting that laws that impact businesses ultimately impact people: "[T]he
reality is that businesses are simply groups of people; they are workers,
consumers, and shareholders." As such, a tax on business is not a tax on
some faceless corporate entity, but ultimately a tax on individual citizens,
whether it results in lower wages for workers or higher prices for consumers. The
report offers a number of statistics and figures that many people may not
realize about businesses and corporations, including: Many people believe that
corporations receive excessive amounts of tax breaks; in reality, it is
individuals -- not corporations -- that receive the vast majority of tax
breaks. In 2014, just 13 percent of all tax expenditures will go to
corporations, according to the Office of Management and Budget, while the
remaining 87 percent will go to individuals. High individual income tax rates
on high income earners actually tax many businesses, because many businesses
are "pass-through" entities, meaning that business profits are taxed
when the individual owner pays his own income taxes. Seventy-four percent of
income from pass-through businesses is earned by individuals with incomes of
more than $100,000.
The Midterms: Watch How an Elephant Responds When
Attacked by 14 Lions
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has just
been presented with an impressive vote of confidence -- in the opposition.
Midterm elections will happen. But strong presidents don't let the well-known
six-year blues bother them. They don't need validation; they know who they are,
where they stand, and they just keep on keeping on. They have an identity,
they've earned it over the years, and they're not about to bargain it away for
a brief boost in the always evanescent polls. The country doesn't need a
president who's popular, just one who's right. Even if it may take the long
perspective of history to prove it.
Pill to Make You
Smart?
Excerpt: It sounds like a science-fiction scenario, but
scientists may have discovered a way to make you smarter that could pave the
way for a new pill to boost intelligence. Researchers
at Stanford University found that by interfering with PirB — a
protein expressed in animal brain cells that allows skills to be recalled but
which also hampers the ability to learn new skills — they could allow the brain
to make faster connections, The Independent reports. In tests involving laboratory animals, lead researcher
Carla Shatz and her colleagues, Dr. David Bochner and Richard Sapp
they could make least one part of the brain become more malleable and more
easily recover from damage, rewire itself, and learn new skills — in effect
making a person smarter. (They just discovered a "stupid" virus. Now
they have a "smart" pill. --Barb)
Colleagues Weigh In On 'Stonewalled'
Excerpt: “Forty years ago Woodward and Bernstein exposed the
rampant dishonesty inside the White House, spawning an entire generation of
journalists dedicated to investigating the government and holding those in
power accountable. Four decades later, one of America ’s few remaining premier
investigative journalists has penned an explosive book detailing just how far
short her profession has fallen in keeping to those ideals. Sharyl Attkisson’s
Stonewalled examines the power exerted by the corporations that control the
media, the ruthless tactics used by the Obama administration and its allies to
manipulate and control the news narrative, and the complacency of many of her
colleagues in challenging the entrenched special interests. (New book. --Barb)
Gun News
‘It’s Very
Disheartening’: Colorado Teachers Swarm Gun Training Course — But Can’t Put
That Training to Use in the Classroom. By Zach Noble
Excerpt: More than 500 Colorado teachers — two-thirds of them women — flocked
to a free concealed carry class on Saturday, KMGH-TV reported. The class was aimed at making schools
safer, but most of the teachers won’t be able to put their training to use
in the classroom, because Colorado
schools are “gun-free” zones.
Ebola and Enterovirus News
Excerpt: The spokesperson for the Center for Disease
Control’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases, Kristen Nordlund, told The Blaze that the agency could not confirm they have a database of people who
are arriving in the U.S. from
West African nations affected by the deadly Ebola virus. “Nordlund could not
confirm if the CDC had a national database to track all persons who have
arrived to the U.S. from
West African nations that may have been exposed to Ebola.” So who is keeping
track of these folks? (As the Israeli news group pointed out the other day,
that is IF they don't lie about where they've been or whom they've been exposed
to in the first place...Barb)
UPDATE: CDC Expands
Risk Factors to Include Airborne Infection [WAS] Alert! CDC Removes FEVER from
Ebola Case Definition & Adds Fatigue As A Symptom
http://www.pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/10/alert-cdc-removes-fever-from-ebola-case.html
Excerpt: The CDC has removed fever from the Ebola Case Definition, and replaced it with the more nebulous definition of "Elevated body temperature or subjective fever or symptoms". The CDC has also added "Fatigue" to the case definition. ... Any person who meets those two above definitions and in the subject eyes of an examiner has any "signs" of concern such as elevated body temperature (98.7 deg F) is now defined as a "Person Under Investigation" for Ebola. And as such, that person is subject to forceful quarantine.
Excerpt: The CDC has removed fever from the Ebola Case Definition, and replaced it with the more nebulous definition of "Elevated body temperature or subjective fever or symptoms". The CDC has also added "Fatigue" to the case definition. ... Any person who meets those two above definitions and in the subject eyes of an examiner has any "signs" of concern such as elevated body temperature (98.7 deg F) is now defined as a "Person Under Investigation" for Ebola. And as such, that person is subject to forceful quarantine.
Ebola Vaccination
Fury: Johnson & Johnson To Have 1/4 Million Ebola Vaccine Courses Ready By
May 2015 & 1 Million By December 2015
Excerpt: According to testimony to be
given tomorrow in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on
Appropriations Hearing on “U.S. Government Response: Fighting Ebola and
Protecting America”, The Ebola vaccination furry will be underway by May
2015 when Johnson & Johnson will have 250,000 doses of Ebola vaccine
ready to split up between the US government, WHO, & African Nations. The
obvious outfall of this effort is that American Healthcare Workers should
expect mandatory Ebola vaccination within the next year.
Race Card News
Tweet from BT @back_ttys
President who basically convicted Darren Wilson in front of
the UN and CBC is now worried about violence.
Black males murder
five year old white girl in Milwaukee
Excerpt: Two black males in Milwaukee walked up to the home of a white
family, in a majority black neighborhood, and unleashed a hail of gunfire. A
five year old white girl was murdered while sitting on her grandfather’s lap. Milwaukee police say
there is no question the shooters were deliberating trying to kill people
inside the house. At least a dozen bullets were fired directly into the house.
There may have been a third person driving a getaway car. (if the girl had been
black, there still would have been no outrage. Unless, of course, the shooters
were white. Then the riots would go on for weeks. ~Bob)
Explosive Charges: Black Democrat Alleges Racism in Lawsuit against Ohio
Democratic Party. State rep. says there is a "plantation-style
management of black public officials" in the state.
Excerpt: Barnes said he feared it would harm his
reputation to “associate with an organization whose moral compass he found to
be troubling.” The lawsuit mentions members of the caucus who have been
convicted of felony and misdemeanor offenses in the last three years. According
to the complaint, Barnes ”saw little value to himself or to his district”
in joining OLBC and “wanted to be treated as an individual rather than as a
member of a presumed monolithic block of votes based upon his skin color.”
(Now, y'all remembah that the KKK was formed by the Democratic Paaarty. That's
American history..."long forgotten, look away." --Barb)
Why I Fear for the People of Ferguson: The violence seen after
the Michael Brown shooting, as bad as it was, was but a dress rehearsal for the
real show about to begin.
Excerpt: On the afternoon of January 20, 2009, just a few
hours after President Obama was sworn in for his first term, I was in a marked
police car and driving through South-Central Los
Angeles . The atmosphere in the area was festive – unusual in a
place where there is not often much cause for celebration. I was stopped at a
red light on a busy street, and when the light changed to green I started to
drive through the intersection when something in the corner of my eye caused me
to brake.
URGENT: Here’s the Leaked Email Warning St. Ferguson
Excerpt: Fueling the speculation that a grand jury decision
will be announced soon is the fact that Ferguson ,
and other St. Louis
area police departments, have been prepping for
war. The Missouri National
Guard has also been doing extensive training over the past couple of
months and have recently staged themselves and their military equipment in and
around Ferguson .
On top of that, a leaked email from a major office building complex in downtown
St. Louis warning tenants to get ready for the expected chaos, leads many to
believe that riots could break out as soon as this weekend. (H/T Truth
Revolt)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Actually, several lies. ~Bob
Excerpt: You may remember that one of the key minds behind
Obamacare, MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, was pretty sure that Obamacare
subsidies couldn’t be distributed unless it happened through a state
exchange . . . until he wasn’t. (That legal theory will be put to the test soon since
the Supreme
Court has
agreed on Friday to hear the challenge.)
White House disagrees
with 'stupidity' comments
Excerpt: The White House press secretary denied that the
administration had obfuscated aspects of the law, saying officials and the
president had spent significant time in multiple forums explaining how it would
work. Instead, Earnest accused Republicans of looking to hide how they would
tackle the issue of healthcare. “It is Republicans who have been less than
forthright and transparent about what their proposed changes to the Affordable
Care Act would do,” Earnest said. (I believe not 1 Republican voted for such.
--Barb. We already know for fact that Obama lied repeatedly to get Obamacare
through. ~Bob)
CBS News on
Obamacare: "Higher Costs, Higher Penalties." By Guy Benson
Excerpt: CBS
News summarizes several of the unhappy developments consumers will
encounter in the coming days and weeks: "With the Affordable Care Act to
start enrollment for its second year on Nov. 15, some unpleasant surprises may
be in store for some. That's because a number of low-priced Obamacare
plans will raise their rates in 2015, making those options less affordable. On
top of that, penalties for failing to secure a health-insurance plan will rise
steeply next year, which could take a big bite out of some families'
pocketbooks. "
Pelosi Claims "I
Don't Know Who He [Gruber] Is"--2009 Vid Proves She's Lying. By Greg Hengler
The Fix: Nancy Pelosi says she doesn’t know who Jonathan Gruber is. She
touted his work in 2009. By Aaron Blake, Washington Post
Excerpt: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said
Thursday that, not only did Jonathan
Gruber not play a significant role in drafting Obamacare, but
that she
doesn't even "know who he is." ... But then there's
this: Pelosi herself has also mentioned Gruber and his work -- back in
November 2009, at the height of the Obamacare debate. Here's the transcript,
via Nexis:
Gruber Says ObamaCare
Built On Lies; This Is News?
Excerpt: ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber has been
taking plenty of flak this week after videos surfaced of him saying lawmakers
deliberately misled "stupid" Americans to get it passed. But why is
this a surprise to anyone? In a tape of a 2013 conference that made the rounds
this week, MIT economist Gruber says that if ObamaCare had transparent
financing and premium subsidies, it never would have become law. (OK, so now
everybody who is moderately awake knows that one of the architects of ObamaCare
counted on deception, confusion, and the stupidity of the American voter to get
the Bill passed. The article below goes into it nicely. It doesn't mention that
the professor got paid $400K for his work on the Bill. So maybe we can let go
of the idea that he was just a sincere guy trying to do good for all his fellow
citizens. I'm wondering how all those who were so defensive of ObamaCare and
how it was the "will of the people" will defend this now. --Del )
Will Jonathan
Gruber return $400k in fees to ‘stupid’ voters now that a third video
has surfaced? By Doug Powers
Excerpt: But wait, there’s more! A third video has
been found: “It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack
of economic understanding of the American voter,” Gruber, an economist at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said during a speech at the
University of Rhode Island in November 2012.
Study: Immigrants Are
Boosting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Rolls The Most
Excerpt: Immigrants and their families are
disproportionately taking advantage of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion,
according to a new study from the anti-amnesty Center for Immigration Studies.
Immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 42 percent of the growth of
Medicaid enrollment between 2011 and 2013, according to the report, although they make up just 17
percent of the U.S. population. By
2013, a quarter of all immigrants and their children were on Medicaid; in
contrast, 16 percent of natural-born Americans and their children are on the health program for those with low
incomes.
Medicare Paying for
Unnecessary Drug Testing for Seniors
Excerpt: It's far from likely that a senior citizen would
use the drug "angel dust" (PCP), but Medicare spent $14 million in
2012 to test seniors for the drug. In fact, reports the Wall Street Journal,
the federal drug program spent $445 million in 2012 to test for drug abuse
among seniors, a 1,423 percent increase from five years earlier. What's
responsible for the increase? Doctors who provide pain medication to patients
are encouraged to test their patients for drug abuse, or the tests may reveal that
patients are actually selling the pills to others, an issue that NCPA Senior Fellow Devon
Herrick recently wrote about in a report on prescription drug fraud. In
years past, doctors used basic urine tests, but Medicare became concerned that
some health care providers were abusing the tests in order to bill the program
for more money. As a result, Medicare limited billing for those tests, setting
caps on payments. High-tech drug tests, however, have no billing limitations,
and some health care providers began using those tests instead, billing
Medicare for tests for a variety of drugs, including cocaine, heroin, angel
dust and ecstasy. Medicare pays providers a separate amount for each drug that
is tested.
Four Times Obamacare
Advocates Admitted It Will Kill Old People
Excerpt: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who has said that he wishes
to die at age 75, wrote in February 2008 in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Vague promises
of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing
electronic medical records and improving quality of care are merely 'lipstick'
cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change. He added
that the Hippocratic Oath was to blame, since it encourages doctors to care for
the patients before them without concern for “cost or effect on
others.” ... Then there’s former Clinton Labor Secretary and Obama
economic advisor Robert Reich, who explained in September 2007: “if you're very old, we're not
going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple
of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of
months.
Undocumented Democrat News
Dem Pollster: Obama
Will 'Poison The Well' With Executive Move On Immigration. By Matt Vespa
Excerpt: Over at the Washington Free Beacon, they
pulled this clip from a Wall Street Journal event this morning, where
Democratic Pollster Peter Hart said this opening salvo for the
114th Congress will pretty much "poison
the well"–and would set another very divisive tone for the upcoming
114th Congress.
Voting 'no' on
Obama's immigration policies. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: In reaction, President Obama sulked, threatening to
quickly push through an unpopular amnesty by executive order. Obama apparently
knows that he enjoys neither public nor congressional support for his planned
executive fiat. In an increasingly multiracial society, voters -- including
many Mexican Americans -- see mostly illogic, hypocrisy and chaos in the
present relaxed immigration policy of the partisan-minded Obama administration.
They grow weary of identity politics that privilege some immigrant groups over
others based on no definable, much less consistent, logic.
Video: (Rep.) Sheila
Jackson Lee: Deporting Illegal Immigrants Violates The 8th Amendment
Martin Scott Catino:
Drug traffickers latest trouble for U.S.
Excerpt: Highway 80 in southeastern Arizona is an eerie ride in this otherwise
beautiful stretch of jagged mountains, boulder-strewn landscapes and
powder-blue skies. U.S.
border patrol vehicles punctuate this scenic and lightly traveled road, which
stretches through the town of Douglas
to Apache, where a monument to the surrender of Native American outlaw Geronimo
stands. But the modern outlaws who roam these ranches a mere 15 miles from the
U.S.-Mexico border show no sign of surrender. Heavily armed drug traffickers
stealthily move in camouflaged uniforms between the shift changes of border
patrol agents and in the darkness of night, using night-vision goggles,
advanced communications, sophisticated movements and diversions — tactics
learned from the Mexican army and other military experts. (I happen to be
fortunate enough to know the author of this article personally, and he's a very
consciously contributing American citizen. Yep, one of those people who clings
to religion and a few personal weapons, like perhaps more than a few others on
this mailing list. The article just reinforces strongly the bad situation at
our border. I can't blame the cowboys and ranchers for being apprehensive about
the drug cartels, they have killed people there in the past and are undoubtedly
more than willing to kill anyone else who they think might be in their way. They
might come in the night to anyone's house and spray automatic weapons fire
through all the walls. When one rancher was really active and detained illegals
passing across his ranch, he got sued by the US government for being nasty to
people, and was in court for a long time at high cost. This pretty much told
everyone else that the government was not interested in their problems and they
should just shut up and look the other way. The damage done to property and the
environment is ignored of course; if they could say that Tea Party people did
the same damage, it would be a very different thing. --Del )
Apache Arizona
Excerpt: I believe story telling to be an art form,
certainly verbal record is the oldest form of recording history and recognized
by historians worldwide. There is an old adage among those who love to tell a
good tale, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." And
yet there are times when the truth is even more fantastic than exaggeration.
... I reside on, and manage a large cattle ranch in the far southeastern corner
of Arizona .
I've been here for 13 years and in that time frame have become far too familiar
with the illegal trafficking in human beings, marijuana and other illicit
drugs. Some have called it "the wetback culture" or "America 's
border problem". Lately it's been taking steroids. (I came across this
tonight, while looking at articles about the amount of environmental damage
done to some of the delicate ecosystems of the deep desert inflicted by the
steady traffic of people coming across the border for years on years now. That's
a whole subject in itself, but reading this article by one of the people living
right in the midst of it all really got my attention. How would any of us feel,
living in the area and under such conditions, and with the knowledge that
getting any justice for the thefts, damage, and even murders is essentially
hopeless. Meanwhile, the rancher who used to capture and hold illegals until
the Border Patrol came for them has finally been slammed with an $87,000
judgment for four illegals who claimed he had physically mistreated one of
them. Other lawsuits cleared him of violating any civil rights of these
illegals, but somehow a whole team of activist lawyers kept this going in court
for several years and convinced a court that, even absent any physical
evidence, he had been too unkind to these illegals and had to pay them for
their pain and anguish. So we have a system in this country that can't stop
illegals from coming across the border in groups, all the time, but we sure can
come down on an American who tried to help stop it. How crazy is this? --Del )
Father Asks Obama To
Use Executive Order To Bring Son Slain By Illegal Alien Back To Life
Excerpt: While your Executive Order pad is out, can you
write one to bring my son and the tens of thousands (actually over 100,000)
killed by illegal aliens back to life and to bring our destroyed families back
together?” asks Don Rosenberg in a letter to Obama. His son Drew was killed by
an illegal alien who ran over him in 2010.
4 Turkish (men)
caught in Texas
Excerpt: Four men flew from Istanbul through
Paris to Mexico City in
late August, where they were met by a Turkish-speaking man who stashed them in
a safe house until their Sept. 3 attempt to cross into the U.S. over the border with Mexico.
Wow. Look What an Illegal Immigrant Did to a 3-Year-Old Girl Waiting for the Ice Cream Truck
Wow. Look What an Illegal Immigrant Did to a 3-Year-Old Girl Waiting for the Ice Cream Truck
Excerpt: A drunk 18-year-old illegal immigrant driving
without a license on Sunday crashed through a fence and killed a 3-year-old
girl as she waited in line for an ice cream truck in Porterville, Calif. Adolfo
Balbuena killed Angeles Moreno, he then backed up and drove away. Three others,
including a worker in the ice cream truck, were also treated for their
injuries.
Report: Obama
Executive Amnesty, 10-Point Plan Coming As Early As Next Week [VIDEO]
Excerpt: President Obama is preparing to announce a 10-part
plan next week to redo the immigration system, which would include the suspension
of deportations for millions of immigrants residing in the nation illegally and
boost border security, according to a Fox News report Wednesday night. Among the most
contentious items on the agenda is the administration’s plan to extend
“deferred action” to millions of young people. ...Also in the fold within the
10-point agenda is the administration’s plan is to expand the number of young
people allowed to remain in the U.S.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
White House hints at
veto of Keystone bill
Excerpt: The White House on Thursday hinted that
President Obama could veto congressional legislation approving the Keystone XL
pipeline as lawmakers in both the House and Senate were readying votes on the
controversial construction project. "Our dim view of these kinds of
proposals has not changed,” press secretary Josh Earnest said. Earnest
reiterated that the State Department was still reviewing the controversial
pipeline project, and that litigation in a Nebraska court still needed to be
resolved.
Senate Democrats Said
to Consider Keystone Vote Soon. By Kathleen Hunter and Jim Snyder
Excerpt: Senate Democrats are looking at taking a vote in
the lame-duck session starting today to force approval of TransCanada
Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL pipeline, in an effort to bolster Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu’s
re-election chances, a party aide said.
President
Obama's Climate Capitulation. By Katie Nielsen
Excerpt: President Obama’s “historic” agreement with China
on climate change will cost you more money. Not only will it raise energy costs
for all Americans, it will weaken our economy and decrease our
nation’s competitive advantage. (And when China doesn't honor the agreement,
we will send then a strongly-worded note along with our next request to borrow
money to fund vote buying. ~Bob)
Common fracking
chemicals no more toxic than household substances. By Laura Snider, CU-Boulder
Media Relations
Excerpt: The “surfactant” chemicals found in samples of
fracking fluid collected in five states were no more toxic than substances
commonly found in homes, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by
researchers at the Univ.
of Colorado Boulder Del )
Feds Aim To Control
Virtually 'Any Wet Spot': 'Largest expansion of power ever proposed'
Excerpt: The change to the definition of water and water
bodies could impact millions of landowners, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, which
has won water-related disputes at the U.S. Supreme Court. “On its face, the
proposed rule covers virtually every water in the nation,” the team told the
government in a comment procedure in advance of any final decision on the
plan.... The rule is so broad “it could lead to practically unlimited
expansion of federal control over property nationwide.”
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: What about those Muslims who seek to replace our
Constitution with the Quran and apply Sharia law in its entirety and severity?
In other words, someone who seeks to not just sway a candidate to tweak the tax
code but to ultimately renovate the whole Constitution of the United States for
their version of Islamic law. Until now Islamists campaign contributions have
been (unknown). A new initiative of the Middle East Forum’s Islamic Watch
provides a first look at the dimensions of this lobby, using a sortable
database. The Islamic money in Politics (IMIP) project
(atislamist-watch.org/money-politics) finds out that over the past 15 years,
prominent figures associated with 6 leading American Islamist organizations
have donated almost $700,000 to federal U.S. candidates.
Obama seeks new Syria
strategy review to deal with ISIS, al-Assad
Excerpt: President Barack Obama has asked his national
security team for another review of the U.S.
policy toward Syria after
realizing that ISIS may not be defeated without a political transition in Syria and the removal of President Bashar
al-Assad, senior U.S.
officials and diplomats tell CNN. The review is a tacit admission that the
initial strategy of trying to confront ISIS first in Iraq
and then take the group's fighters on in Syria , without also focusing on the
removal of al-Assad, was a miscalculation. (How could we have seen this coming?
Well, maybe if we’d recognized that while a lot of the Syrian rebels dislike ISIS and fear the group, they really dislike
Assad and really fear him and his allies. Helping them in the fight
against only the former was not much of a way to build a competent opposition
we liked. It’s even worse than just a sin of omission: The Syrian rebels knew,
long before this was basically admitted in Washington ,
that the most effective fighting forces in Syria
are ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, the local
al-Qaeda affiliate. (The next most effective fighting forces, excluding the
Kurds, are just non-al-Qaeda Islamists who cooperate with al-Qaeda.) So we’re
bombing their best chance at unseating Assad, while not bombing Assad. The
situation is a mess, but this kind of problem is exactly why assailing Obama
for not having a strategy is much more than just a cable-news canard.
Incoherence won’t cut it. -- Jim Geraghty, Morning
Jolt http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters)
Jabhat al-Nusra
Squeezes Out U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels. By John Rossomando
Excerpt: Gains by al-Qaida linked Jabhat al-Nusra in
northwestern Syria threatens
to leave the U.S.
with few options on the ground in that region. Jabhat al-Nusra recently attacked and overran Harakat al-Hazm and the Syrian
Revolutionaries Front (SRF) led by Jamal Maarouf, two key American aligned
militias that the Obama administration saw as key parts of its strategy against
the Islamic State (IS). (Not to worry. We have General Barry Lead-From-Behind
Obama planning our strategy. ~Bob)
A new law proposed in
Excerpt: A new law proposed in Iran would make walking, owning or selling a dog a crime punishable by 74
lashes and a fine of 10 to 100 million rials ($370 to $3,700).
Violators could also be arrested. Although the bill was proposed by 32 hardline
MPs, many of 290 members of Iran ’s Majles
(parliament) are conservatives who sympathize with the hardliners. The target
of the bill appears to be young people as well as wealthy Iranians who are
drawn to imitate Western culture. (In about ten years, there will be proposals
to legally limit dog ownership in the US , so we won't violate Muslims
constitutional right not to be offended. Offending Christians and Jews will
still be politically correct. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Christmas and Easter have been stricken from next
year’s school calendar in Montgomery
County Montgomery ’s
Board of Education voted 7 to 1 Tuesday to eliminate references to all
religious holidays on the published calendar for 2015-2016, a decision that
followed a request from Muslim community leaders to give equal billing to the
Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha. (Personally, I'd have included the Muslim
holidays. Good to know when to be more alert. ~Bob)
'I Am Not Malala' Day
Observed by Pakistani Schools
Excerpt: A network of private schools in Pakistan
observed “I am not Malala day” in protest against Malala
Yousafzai, a young Pakistani activist for girls' education. The All Pakistan
Private Schools Federation condemned Malala for her perceived support of
controversial novelist Sir Salman Rushdie. The federation had previous
banned Yousafzai's autobiography for what it said was the book’s
"anti-Pakistan and anti-Islam content." (Our schools should have
"I am Malala Day." But of course, it would offend Muslims. Who were
not offended when the Taliban shot her in the head. ~Bob)
Fighting the Real War on Women: From FGM Victims,
These Women Became Anti-FGM Activists
Excerpt: Jaha hopes to raise awareness and fight FGM: she
wants to debunk the myth that FGM happens only in far-off countries; rather it
is a very real and current issue also in the United States . Although FGM is illegal
in the USA ,
many find ways of carrying out this practice either through secret procedures
or by smuggling girls overseas to undergo the procedure. Jaha started an
organization Safe Hands for Girls in order to give girls all over the US the chance
to share their problems and speak up against FGM. (Of course, Progressives are
silent about FMG, because "all cultures are equally valid." ~Bob)
'Muslims of the Americas ' Says Hitler Was Not Enemy of U.S.
Excerpt: The Pakistan-based, anti-Semitic leader of
the Muslims
of the Americas organization has published a shocking new statement
downplaying the evil of Hitler and accusing the British government of using the
Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) as a front. Muslims of the Americas (MOA)
is led by Sheikh Mubarak
Ali Gilani and says it has 22 “Islamic villages” around the U.S. , including its 70-acre "Islamberg" headquarters
in New York .
MOA is a splinter group of Gilani’s militant Jamaat ul-Fuqra group in Pakistan .
Watch This Little
Syrian Hero Runs Through Sniper Fire To Save Girl
A Turkish Quest to
"Liberate" Jerusalem
Excerpt: Turks have a different understanding of what
constitutes an occupation and a conquest of a city. The Turkish rule is very
simple: The capture of a foreign city by force is an occupation if that city is
Turkish (or Muslim) and the capture of a city by force is conquest if the city
belongs to a foreign nation (or non-Muslims). For instance, Turks still think
the capture of Istanbul
in 1453 was not occupation; it was conquest.
The Islamic State
Billboards of Raqqa (Part 2). By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Excerpt: As an appropriate follow-up to my Jihadology archive of billboards put up by what was
then the Islamic State in/of Iraq
and ash-Sham [ISIS] in the city of Raqqa
during the summer and fall of last year, here is the latest series of
billboards put up by what is now just the Islamic State [IS] in Raqqa. The
difference in dynamics this time is that the city is solely controlled by IS,
rather than power sharing with Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham.
Unsurprisingly, given the ongoing international coalition campaign against IS,
much emphasis is put on the war with the Western-led coalition.
Fear and Loathing in Jerusalem
Excerpt: The current atmosphere in Jerusalem is reminiscent of the Second
Intifada's opening days, in the autumn of 2000. Tension and fear. A sense of
foreboding. "I can feel it in my bones, what's coming," says
Daniella, a native Jerusalemite who owns a restaurant in central west Jerusalem , and whose
sister was killed in a suicide bombing in 2002.
Egypt sailors missing
after navy ship attacked in Med
Excerpt: Gunmen have attacked an Egyptian navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea , state media say, leaving five
servicemen injured and eight more missing at sea. The vessel reportedly caught
fire in the assault, some 70km (45 miles) off the northern port of Damietta
More fruit of Obama unauthorized lead-from-behind war. ~Bob
Young Dutch Turks’
radical views worry MPs, call for more research
Excerpt: MPs from across the political spectrum have called
for more research into the attitudes of young Dutch Turks to the Islamic State,
after a poll of 300 showed 80% saw nothing wrong in jihad, or holy war, against
non-believers. The research, carried out by the Motivaction group in Amsterdam , was
commissioned by the Forum multicultural institute.
Iranian Official: Some of Obama's Letters Were Answered
Iranian Official: Some of Obama's Letters Were Answered
Excerpt: Obama’s national security advisor, Susan Rice,
later responded to the reports of the letter and said, “We are in no way
engaged in any coordination - military coordination - with Iran on countering ISIS .”
Khamenei has more than once called for Israel's
destruction, the latest incident coming just this week, when he launched
a Twitter tirade against Israel ,
saying that the only “cure” for Israel is its annihilation.
*****
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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